Книга: Farley Mowat «Never Cry Wolf»
Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farely 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 waves. 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. As Mowat comes closer to the wolf world, he comes to fear with them on onslaught of bounty hunters and government exterminators out to erase the noble wolf community from the Arctic. Never Cry Wolf is one of the brilliant narratives on the myth and magical world of wild wolves and man's true place among the creatures of nature. Издательство: "Back Bay Books" (2001) Формат: 130x205, 256 стр.
ISBN: 978-0-316-88179-1 |
Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat OC, BA,
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. A film about his experiences with wolves, titled "
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Childhood
Great grandnephew of Ontario premier Sir Oliver Mowat, Farley Mowat was born in 1921 in
At the height of the Great Depression, the family relocated to
At the age of 13, Mowat founded a nature newsletter, "Nature Lore", and had a weekly column on birds in the Saskatoon "Star-Phoenix". He used the money he gained from his writing to feed
War service
During the
Mowat served throughout the campaign as a platoon commander, and moved to Italy in September 1943, seeing further combat until December 1943. During the Moro River campaign, he suffered from battle stress, heightened after an incident on Christmas Day outside of
He moved with the Division to Northwest Europe in early 1945. There, he worked as an intelligence agent in
He also formed the 1st Canadian Army Museum Collection Team, according to his book "My Father's Son", and arranged for the transport to Canada of several tons of German military equipment, including a V2 rocket and several armoured vehicles. (It is believed that some of these vehicles are on display today at the Canadian Forces Base Borden tank museum.)
Mowat was discharged at the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945 as a Captain, and was considered for promotion to Major, though he turned down the offer as it was incumbent on him volunteering to stay in the military until "no longer needed", which Mowat assumed to mean duty with the Canadian Army Occupation Force (CAOF) but might also have meant the conclusion of the war with Japan. ["My Father's Son", p. 359]
Literary career
Returning to Canada after the war, Mowat studied
This work was followed by a
Mowat followed up these works with a series of personal memoirs. "The Regiment" (1955) is a skillful and — unusual for military regimental histories of that era — highly readable account of the regiment he had served in during the Second World War. [Regimental histories written in the 1950s and 1960s tended to be focused at military readers and often used much jargon. Mowat's book is remarkable for flowing like a novel (with a novelist's eye for capturing emotional detail) while still chronicling the important historical facts of the regiments' service.] " The Dog Who Wouldn't Be" (1957) and "Owls in the Family" (1961) are hilarious memoirs about his childhood.
In 1963, Mowat wrote a possibly fictionalised account of his experiences in the Canadian Arctic with Arctic wolves entitled "Never Cry Wolf", which is thought to have been instrumental in changing popular attitudes on the canids. The work and its claims has been criticised.
Mowat then went through a phase of being very interested in
Mowat then moved to Burgeo, Newfoundland, where he lived for 8 years. He published three books describing his evolving view of his Newfoundland neighbours: in "The Rock Within the Sea" (1968), he presents Newfoundlanders as a heroic people uncorrupted by modern technology; "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float" (1969) reflects his disillusionment with a few Newfoundlanders; and, completing his disillusionment, "A Whale for the Killing" (1972) presents the shooting of a trapped and doomed
Mowat published a denunciation of "the destruction of animal life in the north Atlantic" entitled "Sea of Slaughter" in 1984. In 1985, as a part of the promotional tour for this book, Mowat accepted an invitation to speak at a university in
Then, Mowat became very interested in
In the 1990s and 2000s, Mowat's works have mainly consisted of recombinations of themes he had previously dealt with. He returns to his World War II military service in "My Father's Son" (1992), and to his childhood in "Born Naked" (1993). He returns to the Canadian Arctic in "High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey" (2002) (an account of a 1966 trek in northern Canada) and "No Man's River" (2004) (an account of an Arctic adventure he took amongst the Ihalmiut in 1947). In "Rescue the Earth: Conversations" (1990), Mowat continued his work as an environmental advocate. In "The Farfarers" (2000), Mowat returned to the theme of pre-Columbian interactions between Europe and North America. In "Bay of Spirits: A Love Story" (2006) he returns to stories from his travels to St. Pierre and the southwest coast of Newfoundland in the early 1960s. These events have already led to "This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost" (1968), "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float" (1969), and "A Whale for the Killing" (1972). However, the 2006 effort adds many new personal details as well as fresh accounts of sailing the southwest coast and meeting its inhabitants that were not included in the previous works from this time period in his life.
In 2007, Mowat became actively involved with the
Order of Canada
In 1981, he was made an Officer of the
Criticism
Mowat has encountered controversy in the media, especially after he was in the forefront of protest against American
The "
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