Farley Mowat

"In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of the Second World War behind him, Farley Mowat joined a scientific expedition to the Far North. In the remote reaches of Manitoba, he witnessed an Eskimo population ravaged by starvation and disease brought about by the white man. In his efforts to provide the natives with some of the assistance that the government failed to provide, Mowat set out on an arduous journey that collided with one of nature's most arresting phenomena - the millennia-old migration of the Arctic's caribou herds." "Mowat was based at Windy Post with Charles Schweder, a Metis trapper and two Ihalmiut children. A young girl, known as Rita, is painted with special vividness - checking the traplines with the men, riding atop a sled, smoking a tiny pipe. Farley returns to the North decades later and discovers the tragic fate that befell her."--BOOK JACKET.

Story of suffering and partial extinction of Ihalmiut Eskimo, District of Keewatin, NWT.

Correspondence between the author and his parents, Helen Anne and Angus McGill Mowat, during the latter years of the Second World War.

In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the authorities, but it was too late-ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died. A plea for the end of commercial hunting of the whale, this moving account blends all the tension of the life-and-death struggle for one animal's survival with the drama of man's wanton destruction of life-bearing creatures and the environment itself.--WorldCat

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 wasteland" with no people in it, and therefore resource developers could exploit it however they chose. For reasons Mowat describes that book did not get written then. But here it is now, with the original conversations recorded by Mowat during that epic journey. In vintage Mowat fashion the legendary writer delivers a sweeping narrative brimming with breathtaking nature writing, suspenseful storytelling, larger-than-life characters, ferocious humor, pitiless rage, iconoclastic insights, and compassionate concern. (from cover)

The harrowing account of young Farley Mowat's transformation form a patriotic boy into a hardened, weary soldier of World War II.

The hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service in the North Atlantic.

DOES DONOVAN WILDE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO FULFILL THE McKENNA LEGACY? — It's said that a lone wolf is only alone because it is searching for its mate. But not so for recluse Donovan Wilde, who barely acknowledged his long-lost McKenna family legacy, let alone true love.... Until Laurel Newkirk found him. Laurel claimed she was engaged to him -- but this Donovan was stronger, sexier than the impostor who ran out on her. Laurel made Donovan yearn for love -- and an attack on his father made Donovan long for family. But when he returned to the family that claimed him, would he find a welcoming embrace... or was he putting himself -- and Laurel -- at the impostor's mercy?

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure.--Amazon When first published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens won the Governor-General’s Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and the Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award Amazon reviewer: Melanie (Canada on June 24, 2018) 4 of 5 Stars A good book to read TO your kids. My son read this as part of his grade-5 group class assignment. The story is fantastic and exciting, but I found it way too sophisticated for a boy of 10. The style of writing and the turns of phrase, winding and long-winded, made it hard to keep up. But he managed to get through it (barely...he's 10!).