As Mowat comes closer to the wolf world, he comes to fear with them the onslaught of bounty hunters and government exterminators out to erase the noble wolf community from the Arctic. Contact with his quarry comes quickly, and Mowat discovers not a den of marauding killers but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young. Mowat was probably most widely known for a 1963 book, Never Cry Wolf, in which he recounts his adventures as a biologist on a solo mission in 1946 to study. previous 1 2 3 4 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author.

Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their ways. Books by Farley Mowat (Author of Never Cry Wolf) Books by Farley Mowat Farley Mowat Average rating 4.14 52,406 ratings 3,704 reviews shelved 102,929 times Showing 30 distinct works. In it, he tells the story of his first time in the wilderness and how he interacted with. Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate. Never Cry Wolf is a book by Canadian environmentalist Farley Mowat. The Star quotes Mowats brother, John, as saying the acclaimed writer and. Never Cry Wolf is a brilliant narrative on the myth and magic of wild wolves and man's true place among the creatures of nature. More than half a century ago, the naturalist Farley Mowat accepted an assignment to investigate why wolves were killing Arctic caribou. Farley Mowat, the Canadian author of the nature classic Never Cry Wolf, has died at age 92, Canadian media report.

'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 the reflected image of ourself.' -from the Preface

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