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  Farley Mowat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Farley McGill Mowat OC, BA, D.Litt (born May 12, 1921 in Belleville, Ontario) is one of the most widely-read Canadian authors.
Great-grand-nephew of Ontario premier Sir Oliver Mowat, Farley Mowat was born in 1921 in Belleville, Ontario.
Mowat has encountered criticism in the media, especially after he was in the forefront of protest against American cruise missile testing in Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farley_Mowat   (1631 words)

  
 My Discovery of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mowat agreed to bend so far as to accept an apology if Vice President George H. Bush flew in Air Force Two to a border crossing in Buffalo, New York.
The ban was eventually lifted and Mowat was allowed to see his file, which revealed that he was barred due to an old security dossier supplied to the USA by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The title of the book is intended to be an amusing reference to another one of his books, dealing with his discovery of Siberia, a region to which the Soviet Union did not deny him entry when he wanted to go on a lecture tour there, promoting his books and his ideas on the environment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/My_Discovery_of_America   (358 words)

  
 CRITIQUE :: Farley: The Life of Farley Mowat by James King
Mowat has often come under harsh criticism for changing the essential facts of his books even as they are touted as nonfiction.
King presents Mowat's life as a story in itself, complete with compelling characters such as "the marsh boy," a boyhood friend of Mowat's who lived a virtually wild life in the woods near the family's home.
Likewise, Mowat's relationship with his father, a stern, demanding man whose approval he sought throughout his life, is the stuff of classic drama.
www.etext.org /Zines/Critique/article/farley.html   (693 words)

  
 Mowat, Farley
Mowat, Farley, author (b at Belleville, Ont 12 May 1921).
Mowat's novels for young readers, including The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957) and Owls in the Family (1961), are classics of Canadian children's literature.
Mowat, now a resident of Port Hope, Ont, continues to be a prolific and occasionally controversial author.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005502   (537 words)

  
 Canadian Profile - Farley Mowat
Mowat is content to let the readers decide for themselves the elements of truth and fact within his books because he knows that they are the works of true stories.
By reading a few of Mowat's books you can pick away from the story his life experiences and when putting these experiences together it develops into a montage of his life and what Mowat believes in as he writes on subjects that are close to his heart.
Farley was shipped off to England in the summer of 1942 and in 1943 he was a part of the invasion of Sicily.
www.frymybacon.com /articles/articles.php?article_ID=77   (1394 words)

  
 Mowat
Farley recounts his early adventures in Born Naked (1993) where he tells of beginning school at Dufferin Avenue Public School in Trenton in 1927.
Mowat’s first book, People of the Deer (1952), is a critical look at the treatment of the Inuit people by government officials.
Farley’s many honours and awards include the Canadian Centennial Medal, Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal, a Gemini Award, Canadian Achievers Award, as well as numerous Author of the Year awards, and he was made an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1981.
www.hpedsb.on.ca /millenni/mowat.html   (295 words)

  
 The Independent, December 8, 1998: A visit with Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley Mowat was born in the Quinte region 77 years ago.
For the Mowats, it was love at first sight -- in his own words, "It was right." Over time their relationship settled into the harmonious recipe of the best Canadian Tortiere: Farley can be quite crusty around the edges, but the middle is very tender-hearted.
Farley surmises the Albans populated the British Isles as early as 2000 B.C., and then went a-sailing in skin-covered boats and discovered the New World 35 centuries before Columbus.
www.eastnorthumberland.com /news/newsDecember1998/Mowat120898.html   (914 words)

  
 Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Born in Belleville, Ontario in 1921, Mowat grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto and Richmond Hill as his librarian father moved a household that included a miniature menagerie around the country.
During World War II Mowat served in the army, entering as a private and emerging with the rank of captain.
Farley Mowat's 38 books have been published in 24 languages and have sold more than 14 million copies throughout the world.
www.ecobooks.com /authors/mowat.htm   (211 words)

  
 Farley Mowat • Saskatchewan's Environmental Champions
Mowat spent four formative years (1933-37) in Saskatoon, where his father was working as a librarian.
Mowat contributed to a reversal of popular attitudes towards the wolf.
Mowat's many honours and awards include the Governor General's Award, the Leacock Medal for Humour, the Canadian Centennial Medal, the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal, and a Gemini Award.
www.econet.sk.ca /sk_enviro_champions/mowat.html   (476 words)

  
 Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley Mowat was to spend the next three years in Europe, first in Italy and then Holland, Belgium and Germany.
Farley Mowat, raising a glass of beer up to his mouth, paused, brought it down, brought it back up again and then lowered it sort of halfway in between.
Farley Mowat practises a tradition in which "fiction" and "truth" are not mutually exclusive.
www.umanitoba.ca /cm/cmarchive/vol20no6/farleymowat.html   (1081 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Never Cry Wolf: Books: Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their waves.
Farley Mowat's wonderful account of his observations of the arctic wolf never fails to send the imagination on a soaring journey to that remote land near the top of the world.
Mowat is sent north to observe the wolf in his natural habitat to determine if the wolf is responsible for the disastrous decline of the caribou population.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553273965?v=glance   (1772 words)

  
 Farley Mowat, conscience of the North
At the time of Mowat's visit in 1966, Thrasher and his confreres were hoping to start a cooperative for ''huntin', tradin', and buyin' stuff from outside.'' In a coda to this chapter, Mowat reports, with delight, that ''Joe Thrasher's vision has been largely realized.
King apparently had Mowat's full cooperation, but that hasn't stopped him from presenting the man's flaws or from dwelling on his tangled relationship with his father, Angus, a librarian with a ''thwarted ambition'' to be a great writer.
At one point, both Angus and Farley were not only shacking up with women who were not their wives but also conspiring to keep the affairs secret from the injured parties--which meant Farley was siding against his own mother.
www.suntimes.com /output/books/sho-sunday-king01.html   (937 words)

  
 Sea Shepherd - Coast Guard Attempts to Ram R/V Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat was able to document numerous sealing violations on the ice by the sealing vessel Newfoundland Leader.
Farley Mowat crew that they were in violation of the seal protection regulations by being within a half a nautical mile of a seal hunt.
Farley Mowat is the residence of the crew and therefore the crew are not in violation of the regulations.
www.seashepherd.nl /news/media_050329_1.html   (337 words)

  
 Salon Brilliant Careers | Northern exposure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley Mowat is different, and is a northern national icon.
Farley Mowat would be considered a Canadian national treasure just for the frequent kicks he delivers to the American shin and the official enmity he has earned in return.
Mowat's status as a national hero is probably aided by the number of Canadian towns that can lay claim to him.
www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/05/11/mowat   (1123 words)

  
 Cnadian Authors for Kids; Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario to proud parents Helen and Angus Mowat on May 12th 1921.
Farley Mowat was a lover of nature and animals.
Farley Mowat became a writer because he enjoyed writing about his experiences and about his thoughts.
www.occdsb.on.ca /~sel/literacy/gallery/mowat.htm   (175 words)

  
 Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill.
In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada.
Mowat offers instead an unforgettable portrait of the Albans, a race originating from the island now known as Britain.
www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=21473   (255 words)

  
 Farley Mowat
May 12, 1921, is the birthday of Farley Mowat, author of books on history, young adult novels, and nonfiction about the people and animals of Canada.
Mowat is probably best known for his books about the Canadian Arctic and the Far North, which he writes with humor, understanding, and compassion..
Mowat went on to research the fishermen off Newfoundland, whom he found delightfully untouched by human progress.
amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-051204-mowat.html   (524 words)

  
 Farley Mowat: Writing the Squib by Jamie Dopp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Orange does a clear job of tracing the `romantic roots underlying Mowat's ideology' - roots that are to be found in Mowat's childhood love of nature, his profound experiences in the Canadian Army in the Second World War, and his close relationship with his father.
Mowat's struggle with the meaning of his smallness has a strikingly symbolic resonance: it hints at layers of significance beneath the nature-loving, self-effacing, vulnerable-bombastic, Canadian persona that is Mowat's stock-in-trade.
Mowat's life and work, as Orange effectively demonstrates, can be nicely summed up as complex attempts to `write' the meaning of `Squib.' One of the many things I admired about Writing the Squib was Orange's honest account of the limits of his own project.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/651/mowat45.html   (820 words)

  
 Marian Botsford Fraser – Articles
In Walking on the Land, Mowat returns to the late 1940s and '50s, when he spent time in the Barren Lands of the Arctic with the Ihalmiut, an inland-dwelling Inuit group, whose "unwitting genocide" was the subject of his earlier books, People of the Deer (1952) and The Desperate People (1960).
What Mowat tells and retells is the story of the white man (priest, trader and government official) and his conquest of the Arctic and its peoples.
This is why Farley Mowat tells us, again, these stories from what we prefer to think of as the closed book of history.
www.marianbotsfordfraser.ca /articles/euripedes.htm   (906 words)

  
 Salon Brilliant Careers | Northern exposure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley Mowat may be a Canadian national treasure, but that hasn't stopped his critics from savaging his credibility.
In Farley Mowat's case, though, it's hard to argue that the problem was only Canada's national brand of small-town envy.
In a widely published statement, Mowat excoriated Saturday Night as another National Enquirer and savaged Goddard as a "hired gun" and "despicable." "His piece is stuffed with factual errors," Mowat wrote.
www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/05/11/mowat/print.html   (2172 words)

  
 FARLEY MOWAT: WRITING THE SQUIB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is difficult to write a biography of someone as unusual as Farley Mowat, whose writing includes his life stories and an autobiography.
Mowat's writing is "subjective non-fiction" and he distinguishes between "fact" and "truth." The general purpose of his work is to educate and reform but his sense of humour adds a great deal of entertainment.
Orange sums up Mowat as "anti-authoritarian, intensely nationalistic, environmentally aware, and passionately romantic." The title derives from a "squib," which is the fuse used to ignite explosives or witty writing; both meanings are appropriate.
www.umanitoba.ca /cm/cmarchive/vol22no4/squib.html   (295 words)

  
 Realistic Fiction: Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley's job is to prove that the wolves are killing the caribou.
Once Farley tells the government that the wolves are guilty, they will kill all of the wolves.
Farley Mowat is a fantastic writer, proved by "Never Cry Wolf".
www.occdsb.on.ca /~sel/literacy/kidlit/realistic/realistic_mowat.htm   (121 words)

  
 First Editions by Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat recounts his experiences at being rejected by the US Immigration and Naturization Service at the US/Canadian border in an understandably indignant but mostly humorous style.
The cover art is of Farley Moat done by Mimi Korach depicting the young author sitting atop a rock in the Barren Lands of northern Canada wearing a parka, boots and behind him is a herd of caribou.
Mowat details the life and work of Dian Fossey to safeguard the lives and habitat of the mountain gorilla.
www.townsendbooks.com /mowat.htm   (1368 words)

  
 And No Birds Sang: The Farley Mowat Library - shop.derkeiler.com Product Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mowat developed into a fine writer, and you can see that he was destined to record his generation's fight with the Germans.
Mowat has given us a vivid first hand account of his expierences during WWII and this book ranks at the top of such works.
Mowat is an acute observer of human nature, something he uses with a cutting edge in this book.
shop.derkeiler.com /products/asinsearch_0811731456   (367 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Dog Who Wouldn't Be: Books: Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley's mother demonstrated an act of faith- as well as the desire to save [money amount]- when she purchased Mutt as a puppy from a starving duck seller.
Farley paints his parents as people who had their own interests and needs, but also understood the needs of their son and his dog.
Mowat instills his dog with so much human character and emotion that it would have been more believable if it turned out to be a man in a dog suit.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553279289?v=glance   (1537 words)

  
 Seeing Through Words
As a result, the wolves in Farley’s study most likely endured the same fate that other wolves did when poisoned baits were placed in his study area in 1959.
The importance was again rediscovered by biologists like Farley Mowat who ventured into the remote wilderness seeking to either convict or set free the wolf who was once prosecuted as guilty until proven innocent.
Farley’s narrations captivate a reader and allow him or her to vicariously experience his adventures through his words.
www.uwsp.edu /Education/sslick/yal/seeing_through_words.htm   (1330 words)

  
 Che-Mun 118/119 - 8 - Ottertooth.com
After his harrowing World War II service, young Mowat went north as an assistant to a highly anal and pedantic scientist whose mission was to kill and embalm as many species as possible in the greater name of science.
Mowat soon tires of the scientist and befriends Charlie Schweder, the second generation member of the trapping family, and half native.
Mowat’s descriptions of the rapids are somewhat over the top, in that they seemingly ran most huge ledges and even falls – unlikely – but probably an accurate recollection of what “it felt like” to young Farley.
www.ottertooth.com /che-mun/118/118-8.htm   (1279 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Farley Mowat mellows as he approaches 80 - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Mowat announced that his next book will be a book of verse.
Mowat said the Inuit have amenities such as television and four-wheel-drive vehicles, but they have no productive work.
Mowat said that it's due primarily to the ignorance and stupidity of modern human beings that these sources of sustenance are disappearing or being reduced.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1025827491542_21236691?hub=CTVNewsAt11&subhub=PrintStory   (300 words)

  
 Amazon.com: People of the Deer: Books: Farley Mowat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Farley Mowat has combined a fine sensitivity for the natural environment with a sharp eye for the details of man's place within it.
However, as Mowat points out, this was an exceptional group which had survived the extreme rigours of a barren land (known to us simply as The Barrens) for so many generations, only to be felled by contact with the very race which might have provided them with so much assistance.
Farley Mowat tells how the Ihalmiut people of the Arctic have struggled since their first contact with the white man. This is an enduring reminder to us all of how western civilization remains aloof to the plight of races it has exploited.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0891908188?v=glance   (1367 words)

  
 Newfoundland Books - Never Cry Wolf - Tide's Point
Farley's job is to prove that the wolves are the cause of the problem.
Farley has noticed that the arctic wolves are eating large numbers of mice.
Farley Mowat was in the wilderness doing his study at a time when serious study of wolves was just beginning.
www.tidespoint.com /books/wolf.shtml   (425 words)

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