Farley Mowat

Any Farley Mowat fans out there. If so..what is your fave book?

Never Cry Wolf was my brother's all-time favorite when he was younger...I remember him reading it over and over again. I just picked up a copy for my younger son and will dive in as soon as he's done.

Do you have suggestions for any other of his books, Noah?

"And No Birds Sang," Farley Mowat's book of personal experiences in World War II, is one of the great anti-war books of all time, as well as one of the funniest.

Great book, very readable. I've read it about half a dozen times.

"Walk Well My Brother," a short story, was later turned into the wonderful, beautifully filmed movie: "The Snow Walker." You'll cry!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Walker

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Rick C
www.goldentales.ca

When I was younger, I loved The Dog Who Wouldn't Be.

Finished Never Cry Wolf last week. What a wonderful book and a wonderful story-teller!

When I was younger, I loved The Dog Who Wouldn't Be.

Just started that one a few nights ago and am enjoying it immensely.

Rick, those will be the next two on my list, thanks for the suggestions. I can't believe I never read any of Mowat's books before :o.

Here's a list of Farley Mowat Titles. Of them I've read The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, Owls in the Family, Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey, A Whale for the Killing and Sea of Slaughter. Never read Never Cry Wolf but I did see the movie. I think I might have also read Lost in the Barrens many years ago, but I can't remember for sure.

* People of the Deer (1952; revised 1975) ISBN 0-89190-818-8
* The Regiment (1955) ISBN 0-7710-6575-2
* Lost in the Barrens (1956) ISBN 0-553-27525-9
* The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957) ISBN 0-553-27928-9
* Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure (1958)
* Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Missions of a North Atlantic Salvage Tug (1959) LCC 58-11440
* The Desperate People (1959; revised 1999)LCC 59-13733
* Ordeal by Ice (1960)
* Owls in the Family (1961)LCC 62-7169
* The Serpent's Coil: An Incredible Story of Hurricane-Battered ships the Heroic Men Who Fought to Save Them (1961)
* The Black Joke (1962) LCC 63-13462
* Never Cry Wolf (1963) LCC 63-19169 filmed in 1983 ISBN 1-55890-281-3
* West-Viking (1965) LCC 65-20746
* The Curse of the Viking Grave (1966) ISBN 0-553-27525-9
* Canada North (1967)
* The Polar Passion (1967)
* This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost (1968) LCC 69-12137
* The Boat Who Wouldn't Float (1969) ISBN 0-553-27788-X
* The Siberians (1970) ISBN 0-1400-3456-0
* Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia (1970)
* A Whale for the Killing (1972) ISBN 0-7710-6570-1
* Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages (1973) ISBN 0-7710-6627-9
* Wake of the Great Sealers (1973) LCC 73-14315
* The Snow Walker (1975) ISBN 0-7704-2209-8 short story Walk Well, My Brother filmed in 2003 ISBN 1-59241-410-9
* Death of a People-the Ihalmiut (1975)
* Canada North Now: The Great Betrayal (1976) ISBN 0-7710-6596-5
* And No Birds Sang (1979) ISBN 0-316-58695-1
* World of Farley Mowat (1980) ISBN 0-316-58689-7
* Sea of Slaughter (1984) 0-87113-013-0
* My Discovery of America (1985) ISBN 0-87113-050-5
* Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey (1987)
* Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey (1987) ISBN 0-446-51360-1
* The New Founde Land (1989) ISBN 0-7710-6689-9
* Rescue the Earth!: Conversations with the Green Crusaders (1990) ISBN 0-7710-6684-8
* My Father's Son (1993) ISBN 0-395-65029-1
* Born Naked (1994) ISBN 0-395-73528-9
* Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World (1995) ISBN 1-57098-103-5
* The Farfarers: Before the Norse (1998 - Reprint 2000) ISBN 1-883642-56-6
* The Alban Quest The Search for a Lost Tribe (1999) ISBN 0-297-84295-1
* Walking on the Land (2000) ISBN 1-58642-024-0
* High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey (2002) ISBN 1-58642-061-5
* No Man's River (2004) ISBN 0-7867-1430-1
* Bay of Spirits: A Love Story (2006) ISBN 0-7710-6538-8
* Otherwise (2008) ISBN 0-771-06489-6

Gail, how did you like Owls in the family. I hear it is for children, but heard of adults reading it as well in the past.

That was the name of the other Farley Mowatt book I read! (Didn't want to mention it until I remembered what it was called:o) In one way it is interesting. It's a slightly fictionalized account of Farley's finding/stealing two Great horned owlets as a boy and raising them, leading to some hilarious situations, and some sad ones as well. The ending is sad, as is inevitable when someone without proper knowledge tries to take a wild animal and make a pet out of it. Worth reading, Remember it happened in the sixties before there were laws forbidding this.

Gail, how did you like Owls in the family. I hear it is for children, but heard of adults reading it as well in the past.
It was such a long time ago that I read it, but I seem to recall enjoying it as a child of about 10/11 :shrug: I remember the age because that one year I was in a split grade in school and the other grade (the one I wasn't in) was reading it in class.