Background
BARR, WILLIAM was born on March 11, 1940 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
BARR, WILLIAM was born on March 11, 1940 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
University of Texas (Bachelor of Arts, 1963. Bachelor of Laws, 1966). Assistant United States.
Attorney, 1967-1973.
He holds degrees in Geography from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and McGill University, Québec, Canada. Since 1999 he is a Research Fellow in residence at the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary. Foreign the past 30 years the history of the exploration of the Arctic has been the focus of his research.
He has published 16 books, including translations from French, German, and Russian.
His contribution has been crucial to make known to the wider public the exploits of Polar explorations by Russia and the Soviet Union.
From 1968 until 1999 he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada and is now a professor emeritus there.