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	My Discovery of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		My Discovery of America is a book by Canadian author Farley Mowat, which recounts his troubles trying to enter the United States.
		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 (350 words)

	Mowat, Farley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mowat was even placed in the American "lookout book" for undesirables and refused entry into the US in 1985.
		The highly ironic My Discovery of America (1985) speculates on the reasons he was denied admission to the US for a lecture tour, and his Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey (1987) is a biography of the well-known primatologist.
		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 (452 words)

	Never Cry Wolf--Novel Study Guides for the Classroom Teacher
		Mowat is at a loss to explain how Mike could have known that his mother was sick since there was no logical explanation as to how he could have received such a message.
		Farley Mowat and Ootek wanted to take Kooa back to the cabin but were unable to get near enough to unchain her until they had scared Albert away by firing a shot into the ground nearby.
		Mowat believes that the rage was caused first by his fear and subsequently by his resentment for the wolves who had exposed this flaw or weakness in his fragile human ego.
	www.nt.net /~torino/answer_key_never.html (5766 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Farley Mowat may be a Canadian national treasure, but that hasn't stopped his critics from savaging his credibility.
		Farley Mowat is a Canadian national treasure who tells stories of the animals and people of a hard, cold, sublimely beautiful land.
		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.
	dir.salon.com /people/bc/1999/05/11/mowat/index.html (3438 words)

	Farley Mowat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

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		The discovery of America by Columbus reverently learned by schoolboys as one of the great and clearcut accomplishments of history, is, when subjected to examination, filled with uncertainty.
		Mowat, a native of the northern regions involved and a competent sailor, is particularly ingenious in his analysis of Norse navigation and geographical concepts, and he has boldly formulated a theory of the precise tracks of the voyagers.
		The "Invention" of America Countless explorers, freebooters, adventurers, settlers, priests, and soldiers, drawn by the lure of the green lands, the gold, the slaves, the known and the unknown, followed in the wake of Columbus.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/art/WASHBR05.ART (7728 words)

	FS Ancient Mysteries: Ancient Brits Beat Norse to America Claims Chronicler
		Mowat's latest book, ''The Farfarers,'' makes the extraordinary claim that the Viking voyagers were preceded across the Atlantic by an ancient race of Britons, whom he calls the Albans, older even than the Gaels.
		There are any number of wild ideas about the European discovery of North America, but Mowat does not belong to the ranks of theorists that see a Druid ruin in every abandoned New England root cellar or rune in every scratched rock.
		Central to the book is Mowat's belief that curious stone towers and foundations found in Arctic and Atlantic Canada were built by the same people responsible for similar ancient structures in the British Isles.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/albans.htm (434 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| Northern exposure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Farley Mowat's case, though, it's hard to argue that the problem was only Canada's national brand of small-town envy.
		The article reported that residents of the Northwest Territories often refer to Farley Mowat by the derisive nickname "Hardly Know-it." After noting the claims of scrupulous authenticity Mowat made within the books themselves, Goddard described a very different Mowat attitude displayed in notes and conversation.
		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/index1.html (1258 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 (1339 words)

	Powell's Books - The Farfarers: Before the Norse by Farley Mowat
		Mowat once again draws on scant evidence to conclude the following: The Norse failed to establish themselves in Labrador and Newfoundland because wary Albans, Tunits and Beothuks were better prepared to defend their land against further Norse invasions.
		Refreshingly, Mowat is first to admit (several times throughout the course of the book, in fact), that what he has written has been pieced together loosely from a dearth of historical writings-and these from later time periods-which only allude to the presence of the Albans.
		FARLEY MOWAT was born in Ontario in 1921, served in World War II, and spent two years in the Arctic before he began writing for a living in 1949.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-1883642566-5 (1145 words)

	Encyclopedia: My Discovery of America (Farley Mowat) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Other descriptions of My Discovery of America (Farley Mowat)
		Apparently he was believed to represent a threat to the country's national security due to his leftist and environmental writings.
		Mowat agreed to bend so far as to accept an apology if Vice President George H.W. Bush flew in Air Force Two to a border crossing in Buffalo, New York.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/My-Discovery-of-America-%28Farley-Mowat%29 (389 words)

	Farley and Claire Mowat - Fanshawe College
		Some of us when younger read Mowat's fiction for juveniles, the trilogy Lost in the Barrens (1956), The Black Joke (1962), and Curse of the Viking Grave (1966), and, perhaps, enjoyed early works of light humor by Mowat such as The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957) or Owls in the Family (1961).
		There is no mercy with Mowat, and he takes to task one industry after another--fishing, forestry, farming--charging the objects of his attack with "imperishable stupidity," and ultimately, with "biocide." Environmental and wildlife sagas such as Never Cry Wolf (1963) or A Whale for the Killing (1972) set the tone.
		One of Mowat's most ambitious and acclaimed works is his 1987 biography Virunga: the Passion of Dian Fossey, in which Mowat chronicles the life and work of this most famous martyr for the environment.
	www.fanshawec.on.ca /news/2000/mowat.asp (1024 words)

	Station Information - Farley Mowat
		Farley Mowat (born May 12, 1921) is a Canadian novelist.
		He grew up in Saskatoon and, loving animals, he kept an alligator and birds inside his house.
		Once, when Mowat said that he has spent two summers and a winter studying wolves, the Toronto Star wrote that Mowat had only spent 90 hours studying the wolves.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/farley_mowat.html (170 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: My Discovery of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In April 1985, en route to a publicity tour in the U.S., Mowat was barred from crossing the border.
		Mowat waged a war of publicity, and it was through press accounts, rather than being informed directly, that he learned the reasons (relating to his leftist and environmentalist sympathies) for his exclusion.
		This "discovery" of Mowat's may not be news on this side of the border, but it provides an encouraging conclusion to a maddening tale of official high-handedness.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0871130505/medfools01-20 (344 words)

	Stalking the Elephant
		That one is by Farley Mowat, and was moderately famous in 1985.
		Mowat illustrates the paranoia of the US in the calls and letters he received after he was refused entry at the border.
		Many people outside North America have generally favourable thoughts of Canada, when they think of it at all, and generally unfavourable thoughts of the US, and they have to think of it all too often.
	www.nucleus.com /~keith/stalkingelephant.html (754 words)

	Farley Mowat - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Farley Mowat (born May 12, 1921) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author.
		During the Second World War, Mowat served as an officer with the Hastings and Prince Edwards Regiment of the Canadian Army.
		He was amongst the first to land in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, and served with the Canadian forces amongst the D-Day Dodgers for the rest of their contribution to the Italion campaign.
	www.free-definition.com /Farley-Mowat.html (398 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| Northern exposure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Farley Mowat is different, and is a northern national icon.
		In a country that is definitely on the short end of a sibling rivalry -- the Frank Stallone of the Western world -- a little resentment is inevitable.
		Mowat excels at this, and thus is much beloved.
	www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/05/11/mowat (1123 words)

	Eat Healthy. Live Happy. - Cookbook - My Discovery of America
		I am a long time fan of Farley Mowat's work and by chance managed to get my hands on this, one of his more obscure books, and one that I had been wanting to read for a long time.
		Put simply Mowat was refused entry to the country in the mid 80's under the McCarran-Walter Act a fun little law (repealed in the 90's) that allows the INS to refuse entry to anyone on fairly shallow grounds.
		In this case Mowat seems to have been denied entry because of his conservation (tree-hugging) beliefs.
	www.valuerecipes.com /index.php/trade/productinfo/ASIN/0771066244 (267 words)

	Callnum Hitlist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Brave his soul; the story of Prince Madog of Wales and his discovery of America in 1170,.
		Westviking : the ancient Norse in Greenland and North America.
		Woman on the American frontier : a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the Republic.".
	www.csd99.k12.il.us /webopac/callnum?searchtext=973.1+Nor (127 words)

	Never Cry Wolf Summary & Study Guide by Farley Mowat
		Farley Mowat was bom on May 12, 1921, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.
		Mowat's first book, People of the Deer (1952), served as a bitter indictment of the inept governmental bureaucracy and misdirected missionary fervor that nearly drove an Eskimo tribe to extinction.
		Mowat has achieved an international reputation for his defense of the natural world and his depiction of that world in words.
	www.bookrags.com /short/never_cry_wolf (536 words)

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		VIGNERAS, Louis-Andr The Discovery of South America and the Andalusian Voyages.
		Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-Columbian Norse Housesites in North America.
		The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, America.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/bib/AODTIR01.BIB (1406 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Granted extraordinary freedom to visit places rarely seen by any westerner since 1917, Farley Mowat and his wife, Claire, travelled more than 29,000 miles over mountains, steppes, taiga and tundra to meet the people who have chosen to make Siberia their home and livelihood.
		A lover of the North, Mowat had written passionately and extensively about it from the Canadian perspective, and had now been given the opportunity to see how the peoples of the North faired under Communist rule.
		While critical of such encroachments in a North American context, Mowat is quite clearly impressed by the manner in which it was accomplished in Siberia, and was equally impressed by the resiliant spirit of the newer Siberians.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771066910/fiftiesweb-20 (532 words)

	The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
		Gelbspan, a veteran Boston Globe reporter became intrigued in the mid-1980's by a pattern of robberies reported by persons and groups opposing Reagan administration policies in Central America.
		Hundreds of offices, homes, and cars were broken into, files were ransacked or stolen, but valuable equipment was left untouched.
		Gelbspan documents how the FBI forged back-channel ties to far-right anti-communist groups in the U.S. and a shadowy network of government agencies and death squads in El Salvador.
	www.publiceye.org /research/biblio/Repression-02.html (1207 words)

	Farley Mowat author web page at mostly fiction
		Mowat is a natural story teller and his narrative and anecdotes are brilliant.
		Farley: the Life of Farley Mowat by James King (2003)
		Farley Mowat is Canada's most widely read author and many would view him as a Canadian hero.
	mostlyfiction.com /humor/mowat.htm (334 words)

	Leif Ericson Millennium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		America Not Discovered by Columbus : an Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen in the Tenth Century / Rasmus B. Anderson
		Norse Discoveries and Explorations in America, 982-1362; Leif Erikson to the Kensington Stone / Hjalmar R. Holand.
		The Norse Atlantic Saga, Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland [and] America / Gwyn Jones
	lib.sdstate.edu /lib11/guidemonth/leifericson.html (412 words)

	Aurora Public Library /All Locations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Boat Who Wouldn't Float / by Farley Mowat.
		The Dog Who Wouldn't Be / by Farley Mowat.
		The Farfarers : Before The Norse / Farley Mowat.
	odyssey.aurora.lib.co.us:90 /kids/913/search/a?mowat+farley (52 words)

	Pre-Columbian visitors to North America bibliography
		The authors advocate the possibility that Stonehenge is a monument celebrating the discovery of America and the North Salem, NH, site was a nautical center where bronze age sea captains met.
		Ingstad, A. The discovery of a Norse settlement in America.
		Also see Samuel Eliot Morison's 1971, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages A.D. for his extensive commentary on the Norse, Celtic, Welsh and Zeno controversies.
	www.davistownmuseum.org /bibPreColumb.htm (1044 words)

	Farley Mowat books on Doreenstephensbooks.com
		Mowat, Farley POLAR PASSION: The Quest for the North Pole
		Mowat, Farley VIRUNGA, The Passion of Dian Fossey
		In her passions, her faults, her uncompromising dedication, Dian Fossey was unique, and her story has ll the elements of compelling drama: ambition and sacrifice, love, violence, witchcraft, murder -- and of course the great lure of Africa itself, the dark continent.
	www.doreenstephensbooks.com /pg/farleymowat.html (111 words)

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		They, discovered America, but Europe, the western culture doesn't discover it up to March 4 1493 in that Columbus enters in Lisbon, and if it is not for that reason, today America could belong to the culture euroásiática instead of to the Westerner, thing that demonstrated Mr.
		Historically speaking, in America is objective testimonies of the vikings presence in times that correspond that of their expansion, but nothing else.
		Subject: Re: [EXP] Greenland Sender: owner-discovery@win.tue.nl Precedence: bulk Reply-To: discovery@win.tue.nl Status: RO My admittedly secondary sources suggest that it was a failure to adapt to the rigors of the little ice age circa 1350 -1400 that ended the Viking habitation of Greenland.
	www.win.tue.nl /cs/fm/engels/discovery/list/99-02.txt (6934 words)

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