Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1997. — 188 p. — ISBN: 1-57098-175-2. A collection of anecdotes selected from Farley Mowat's books. Includes Mowat's unusual animal companions, his first trip to the Arctic at the age of fifteen, his misadventures at sea and more. Beginnings A note about names Angus and boats Moving west The coming of Mutt Mutt's early days Mutt goes fishing Battle...
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1981. — 219 p. — ISBN: 0-55314-702-1. World-renowned for his passionate tales of survival, this is Mowat's account of a heroic battle to save the life of a Fin Whale. When the 80-ton whale became trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some...
A poignant and tragic parable for our times...a powerful and anguished book. —Globe & Mail When an 80-ton Fin Whale became trapped in a lagoon near his Newfoundland home, Farley Mowat rejoiced: here was a unique chance to observe one of the world’s most magnificent creatures up close. But some of his neighbours saw a different opportunity altogether: in a prolonged fit of...
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1995. — 248 p. — ISBN: 1-55013-716-6. In the spring of 1953, Farley Mowat returned to Europe to retrace his wartime footsteps and search for peace. He returned to England and France — countries that less than a decade previously had been made weary under the weight of war. He returned to the nightmarish battlefields of Italy that had seen Canadian...
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. — 228 p. — ISBN: 0-31658-695-1. Turned away from the Royal Canadian Air Force for his apparent youth and frailty, Farley Mowat joined the infantry in 1940. The young second lieutenant soon earned the trust of the soldiers under his command, and was known to bend army rules to secure a stout drink, or find warm — if non-regulation —...
A seemingly effortless evocation of the fire that shaped a Canadian generation...bound to rank as one of Mowat’s major accomplishments. —Mordecai Richler Turned away from the Royal Canadian Air Force for his apparent youth and frailty, Farley Mowat joined the infantry in 1940. The young second lieutenant soon earned the trust of the soldiers under his command, and was known to...
In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in love with a people and a place, Mowat also met the woman who would be the...
New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 2007. — 391 p. — ISBN: 978-0-78671-994-5. In 1957, Farley Mowat boarded one of Newfoundlands sturdy coastal steamers, sailing from one tiny oucpon village to anochef along the Rock's rugged coast. I he indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him bach again and again, until finally he purchased his own...
Toronto: Seal Books, 1994. — 267 p. — ISBN: 0-77042-617-4. In the summer of 1933 Angus Mowat, a soldier, sailor, beekeeper, and librarian, packed his family into a homemade camper dubbed the "Ark" and set off from Windsor, Ontario, to Saskatoon. For twelve-year-old Farley the trip through the prairie, with its teeming wildlife and big-sky beauty, would have a lasting effect on...
Mariner Books, 1995. Farley Mowat's youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes of sleeping in haystacks for survival, and other adventures, with equal shares of Booth Tarkington and Jack London. He also brings back Mutt, the famous...
Mariner Books, 1995. Farley Mowat's youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes of sleeping in haystacks for survival, and other adventures, with equal shares of Booth Tarkington and Jack London. He also brings back Mutt, the famous...
Mariner Books, 1995. Farley Mowat's youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes of sleeping in haystacks for survival, and other adventures, with equal shares of Booth Tarkington and Jack London. He also brings back Mutt, the famous...
Eastern Passage is a new and captivating piece of the puzzle of Farley Mowat’s life: the years from his return from the north in the late 1940s to his discovery of Newfoundland and his love affair with the sea in the 1950s. This was a time in which he wrote his first books and weathered his first storms of controversy, a time when he was discovering himself through experiences...
Emblem Editions, 2009. Originally titled Virunga, this is the story of Dian Fossey, the mountain gorillas’ greatest champion and martyr. Based on Fossey’s personal papers and on interviews with her colleagues, friends, and enemies, Gorillas in the Mist reveals one woman’s passion for life — and the creatures who share it with us. Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in...
Emblem Editions, 2009. Originally titled Virunga, this is the story of Dian Fossey, the mountain gorillas’ greatest champion and martyr. Based on Fossey’s personal papers and on interviews with her colleagues, friends, and enemies, Gorillas in the Mist reveals one woman’s passion for life — and the creatures who share it with us. Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in...
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1982. — 249 p. — ISBN: 0-55324-155-9. One of the great storytellers of our century writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin . The captain and the crew were mostly Newfoundlanders; the sea was in their blood. Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the ships she towed, blasted by galeforce...
South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2003. — 300 p. — ISBN: 1-58642-061-5. In High Latitudes Farley Mowat chronicles for the first time a sometimes hazardous journey he took across northern Canada in 1966. He hoped to write a book that would let northern people speak for themselves and that would expose the speciousness of the political idea that the North was "a bloody great...
Lost in the Barrens is a children's novel by Farley Mowat, first published in 1956. Some editions used the title Two Against the North. It won a Governor General's Award in 1956 and the Canada Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1958. This is a childrens' or young adults' adventure story that takes place in Canada's low arctic just north of the tree line...
Toronto: The Canadian Publishers, 1973. — 258 p. Lost in the Barrens is a children's novel by Farley Mowat, first published in 1956. Some editions used the title Two Against the North . It won a Governor General's Award in 1956 and the Canada Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1958. This is a childrens' or young adults' adventure story that takes place...
Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985. — 125 p. — ISBN: 0-87113-050-5. On April 23, 1985, writer and naturalist Farley Mowat left his home in Ontario on a journey to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in order to further the ideas in his important book Sea of Slaughter . My Discovery of America is the story of how Mowat was refused entry, without explanation, by the...
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1992. — 365 p. — ISBN: 1-55013-430-2. In the summer of 1943, a young Farley Mowat landed on the beaches of Sicily with the First Canadian Infantry division as part of the initial Allied assault on western Europe. For a year and a half his division fought its way up the Italian “boot” in a series of savage and bloody battles, driving the German army...
Never Cry Wolf is a book by Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1983. It has been credited for dramatically changing the public image of the wolf to a more positive one. It is presented as a first-person narrative of Mowat's research into the nature of the Arctic Wolf. In 1948-1949, the Canadian...
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. ISBN: 0-316-88179-1 More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone - studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man) - is today celebrated...
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. ISBN: 0-316-88179-1 More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone - studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man) - is today celebrated...
Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988. — 166 p. — ISBN: 0-553-27396-5. When i began writing this book eleven years ago the wolf was cast in a rather minor role. My original plan was to write a satire about quite a different beast — that peculiar mutation of the human species known as the Bureaucrat. I intended the wolf to terve only as a foil for an exposition of Homo bureaucratis — that...
New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004. — 355 p. — ISBN: 0-7867-1430-1. With No Man's River , master storyteller Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This newest addition to his beloved oeuvre of northern grandeur chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as they struggled to eke out a living in a brutal environment. In the spring of...
A Canadian icon gives us his final book, a memoir of the events that shaped this beloved writer and activist. Farley Mowat has been beguiling readers for fifty years now, creating a body of writing that has thrilled two generations, selling literally millions of copies in the process. In looking back over his accomplishments, we are reminded of his groundbreaking work: He...
Owls in the Family is a children's novel written by Farley Mowat first published in 1962. The story concerns two Great Horned Owls found by Billy, Bruce and Murray in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The owls become part of a larger pet collection. Wol is the larger bird and is a lighter colour (pure white with a little black).Wol was found under a bush after a storm. Weeps is a...
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. — 107 p. The story concerns two Great Horned Owls found by Billy, Bruce and Murray in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The owls become part of a larger pet collection. Wol is the larger bird and is a lighter colour (pure white with a little black). Wol was found under a bush after a storm. Weeps is a mottled brown. Weeps was found in a...
Toronto: Seal Books, 1980. — 296 p. — ISBN: 0-7704-2021-4. At the time People of the Deer was published, in 1952, it was impossible for me to obtain documentary corroboration for much of the story. The book dealt harshly with the Old Empires of the North — the missions, the R.C.M.P., the trading companies, and the federal government — who between them possessed all of the...
Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1984. — 438 p. — ISBN: 0-87113-013-0. The "Sea of Slaughter" of Farley Mowat's title is the northeastern seaboard of Canada and the United States — the sea and adjoining lands from the coast of Labrador down to Cape Cod, and including the whole Gulf of St. Lawrence. This region, once incredibly rich in the variety and quantity of its animal...
McClelland and Stewart, 1990. The book was first published in 1973. Here is a Siberia unheard of in the West. Once the most remote place of exile in all of Russia, Mowat describes it as a burgeoning land of opportunity and growth. Granted extraordinary freedom to visit places rarely seen by any westerner since 1917, Farley Mowat and his wife, Claire, travelled more than 29,000...
McClelland and Stewart, 1990. The book was first published in 1973. Here is a Siberia unheard of in the West. Once the most remote place of exile in all of Russia, Mowat describes it as a burgeoning land of opportunity and growth. Granted extraordinary freedom to visit places rarely seen by any westerner since 1917, Farley Mowat and his wife, Claire, travelled more than 29,000...
McClelland and Stewart, 1990. The book was first published in 1973. Here is a Siberia unheard of in the West. Once the most remote place of exile in all of Russia, Mowat describes it as a burgeoning land of opportunity and growth. Granted extraordinary freedom to visit places rarely seen by any westerner since 1917, Farley Mowat and his wife, Claire, travelled more than 29,000...
The Black Joke is a rousing sea story in the tradition of the great classic pirate tales. The time is the 1930s. The loot is bootleg liquor, not pirate gold. And the ship is the Black Joke, the speediest, nimblest craft on the Newfoundland coast – Jonathon Spence, owner and master. An unwelcome passenger enmeshes the boat and her crew (young Peter and Kye) in danger and near...
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. — 220 p. The Black Joke is a rousing sea story in the tradition of the great classic pirate tales. The time is the 1930s. The loot is bootleg liquor, not pirate gold. And the ship is the Black Joke , the speediest, nimblest craft on the Newfoundland coast — Jonathon Spence, owner and master. An unwelcome passenger enmeshes the boat...
It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like...
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1981. — 198 p. — ISBN: 978-0-553-27788-3 It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure , despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers...
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1966. — 253 p. A group of Canadian Northland natives and a trapper stumble on a Viking cache and tomb. They plan to return the following summer, but the trapper becomes ill, and the project almost flounders.
Toronto: Seal Books, 1984. — 228 p. — ISBN: 0-7704-2017-6. They could survive anything in the Arctic wilderness — except the white man. They were rich, the caribou were abundant. Their (logs were many and strong. The children in the tents were happy, and there was never any fear of going hungry. Then came the ruthless white man's civilization. And with it came slaughter of the...
Farely Mowat's best loved book tells the splendidly entertaining story of his boyhood on the Canadian prairies. Mutt's pedigree was uncertain, but his madness was indisputable. He climbed tress and ladders, rode passenger in an open car wearing goggles and displaying hunting skills that bordered on sheer genius. He was a marvelous dog, worthy of an unusual boy growing up a raw,...
Toronto: Bantam Books, 1982. — 201 p. — ISBN: 0-55320-951-5. Farely Mowat's best loved book tells the splendidly entertaining story of his boyhood on the Canadian prairies. Mutt's pedigree was uncertain, but his madness was indisputable. He climbed tress and ladders, rode passenger in an open car wearing goggles and displaying hunting skills that bordered on sheer genius. He...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. In this bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach North America, offering an unforgettable portrait of the Albans, a race originating from the island now known as Britain. Battered by repeated invasions from their aggressive neighbors — Celt, Roman, and Norse — the Albans fled west....
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. In this bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach North America, offering an unforgettable portrait of the Albans, a race originating from the island now known as Britain. Battered by repeated invasions from their aggressive neighbors — Celt, Roman, and Norse — the Albans fled west....
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 384 p. In this bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach North America, offering an unforgettable portrait of the Albans, a race originating from the island now known as Britain. Battered by repeated invasions from their aggressive neighbors - Celt, Roman, and Norse - the Albans...
Soutn Rotalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2000. — 377 p. — ISBN: 978-1-883642-56-3. Some forty years ago I began investigating pre-Columbian European voyages to Canada. By 1965 I thought I had got it about right so I published Westviking — The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America . I went on to pursue other interests, write other books; but during the time I worked on...
New York, NY: Lyons Press, 2001. — 184 p. — ISBN: 1-5857-4287-2. An incredible story of hurricane-battered ships and the heroic men who fought to save them.
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1982. — 290 p. — ISBN: 0-553-20379-7. I was thirteen years old when I made my first visit to the arctic. Ever since then the northern regions of the world and the people who inhabit them have fascinated me. Over the years I have visited most parts of the Canadian arctic; and I have read extensively about, or traveled in, other northern regions but,...
Toronto: Seal Books, 1984. — 211 p. — ISBN: 0-77042-058-3. He is one of the most popular storytellers of our century. He writes passionately of the bonds between a people and their strange world — bonds more powerful than death.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1989. — 519 p. — ISBN: 0-77106-686-4. Ordeal by Ice is the thrilling account of the great Northern explorers: men who struggled, starved, and finally conquered the capricious forces of the bitter Northern winter in a centuries-long search for the Northwest Passage. The stories, compiled by award-winning author Farley Mowat and presented in...
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1989. — 492 p. — ISBN: 0-77106-687-2. They dared to dream. They dared to quest. And in the end, they dared to test the furthest limits of human endurance. Meet the great Arctic explorers, the intrepid adventurers who pitted themselves against the forces of the frozen North. They are the heroes of The Polar Passion , Farley Mowat's captivating saga...
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1989. — 416 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-87905-372-7. The huge, barren Arctic land mass known as the Tundra stretches across the top of North America from the Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean. The men who explored it were incredibly determined and courageous souls — adventurers whose mettle was tested to its fullest. Their firstperson chronicles are...
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. — 341 p. — ISBN: 0-31658-689-7. For nearly thirty years Farley Mowat has written of the lands, seas, and peoples of the Far North with a humor and raciness, an understanding and compassion that place him internationally among Canada’s most distinguished authors. Selected from thirteen of his works by poet Peter Davison, The World of...
New York, NY: Scholastic Book Services, 1956. — 217 p. This is a childrens' or young adults' adventure story that takes place in Canada's low arctic just north of the tree line in roughly the late 1940s or early 1950s. It tells a coming of age tale of two boys in their late teens; one, a white boy who has recently lost his parents, the other a Cree Indian from a tribe living...
New York, NY: Warner Books, 1987. — 411 p. — ISBN: 0-446-51360-1. Dian Fossey never spoke about writing her autobiography, but that she someday hoped to do so is evident from notations in her journals and from the fact that she went to great pains to amass and preserve an extraordinarily complete personal archive. This massive collection included the correspondence received by...
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