Farley Mowat

Born

in Belleville, Ontario, Canada

May 12, 1921

Died

May 06, 2014

Genre

Outdoors & Nature, History, Biographies & Memoirs

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Farley McGill Mowat was a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors.

Many of his most popular works have been memoirs of his childhood, his war service, and his work as a naturalist. His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 14 million books.

Mowat studied biology at the University of Toronto. During a field trip to the Arctic, Mowat became outraged at the plight of the Ihalmiut, a Caribou Inuit band, which he attributed to misunderstanding by whites. His outrage led him to publish his first novel, People of the Deer (1952). This book made Mowat into a literary celebrity and was largely responsible for the shift in the Canadian government's Inuit policy: the government began shipping meat an ...more

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Farley Mowat’s books

Average rating: 4.14 · 46,149 ratings · 2,948 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors

	Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves 4.20 avg rating — 21,556 ratings — published 1963 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat, Robert Frankenberg (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 4,326 ratings — published 1961 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa 4.17 avg rating — 3,493 ratings — published 1987 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dog Who Wouldn't Be 4.15 avg rating — 3,863 ratings — published 1957 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boat Who Wouldn't Float 4.07 avg rating — 1,799 ratings — published 1969 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in the Barrens 3.96 avg rating — 2,093 ratings — published 1956 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat, Robert MacNeil (Foreword by) 4.17 avg rating — 1,298 ratings — published 1979 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People of the Deer 4.06 avg rating — 1,232 ratings — published 1950 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Whale for the Killing 4.14 avg rating — 1,149 ratings — published 1972	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snow Walker 4.04 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 1975 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Farley Mowat

“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
― Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

tags: animals, wolves

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“And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.”
― Farley Mowat

tags: eskimo-folklore, wild-life, wilderness, wolves

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“Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.”
― Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

tags: animal-rights, destroy, justification, war

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Polls

Please vote for the book you'd prefer to read as November's Book of the Month. Titles not selected are eligible to be nominated at a future time. Feel free to ask any questions or champion your choice in the comments.

The Little Shadows by Marina Endicott

3 votes, 42.9%

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill

3 votes, 42.9%

Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat

1 vote, 14.3%

7 total votes

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