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Growing up in Saskatoon, with a characterful dog and a boat-mad father.

"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 t...

The story of two boys on a hunting trip who lose their way in Canada's desolate Barrenlands, just as the long Arctic winter is beginning.

A selection for young people that shows Mowat's great love of animals and of the sea and how his extraordinary experiences led him to become a writer. "With selections from Born naked, The dog who wouldn't be, Owls in the family, The boat who wouldn't float, and many others"--p. ...

Canadian author Farley Mowat talks about his boyhood in Saskatchewan and of the animals he had there. He talks of writing his children's book, Owls in the Family, and reads a chapter in which Wol, the owl, scares away the bullies who catch the younger boys and want to take over t...

Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their...

Farley Mowat's outrageous memoir begins with his unlikely conception in a canoe and continues to his boyhood fascination with creatures of the natural world and on to his youthful rambles and adventures. To his immense pleasure and his parents' dismay, he adopted various beasts (...

With No Man's River, Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This book chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as they struggle to eke out a living in a brutal environment. In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of WWII behind h...

A hilarious story of Farley Mowat's boyhood on the Canadian prairies and his beloved unusual dog.

Awasin, a Cree 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 ...

"Filled with romantic ideas of putting an old wooden boat to sea, Farley Mowat left Toronto in a rickety flatbed truck for Newfoundland where, he's been told, boats looking for (gullible) buyers are as common as cod. What he doesn't anticipate is that the ship he purchases (half ...

The author of Never Cry Wolf recounts his journeys through Europe in the aftermath of World War II in an effort to come to terms with his experiences as a Canadian soldier, visiting sites devastated yet reborn.