Farley Mowat was een gerenommeerde Canadese auteur en natuurbeschermer wiens werken zich vaak richtten op wilde dieren en inheemse volkeren. Zijn schrijven vloeide vaak voort uit diepe verontwaardiging over onrechtvaardigheden en misverstanden waarmee natuurlijke werelden en mensen werden geconfronteerd, met als doel lezers op te leiden en te inspireren tot natuurbescherming. Door middel van meeslepende verhalen en scherpe observaties belichtte Mowat de complexiteit van het leven in barre omgevingen, waarbij hij de noodzaak van medeleven en respect voor alle levensvormen benadrukte. Zijn literaire nalatenschap ligt in zijn vermogen om een sterk verantwoordelijkheidsgevoel voor de planeet op te roepen.
Dian Fossey dedicated her life to saving endangered mountain gorillas from extinction. Living alone in the mist-shrouded lath forests of Central Africa, she fought for their survival against poachers and tribesmen, scientists and zoo collectors, and there, finally, she died for them, brutally murdered in 1985. This extraordinary biography is based on her own archives
Two brothers must face the wilderness with no food and no hope of rescue when their canoe is destroyed by the rapids. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
A canine character named Mutt refuses to accept the limitations of being a dog
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. "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be -- the mythological epitome of a savage, ruthless killer -- which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself." -- from the new preface to Never Cry Wolf. From the Paperback edition.
In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the authorities, but it was too late-ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died. A plea for the end of commercial hunting of the whale, this moving account blends all the tension of the life-and-death struggle for one animal's survival with the drama of man's wanton destruction of life-bearing creatures and the environment itself.Author Biography: Farley Mowat is one of the world's foremost nature writers and conservationists. He is the author of 39 books, including Never Cry Wolf, Sea of Slaughter, and The Snow Walker. He and his wife, Claire Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.
A humorous account of the author's excursions through the Maritime Provinces in a thirty-one-foot craft that was barely seaworthy
Farley Mowat's funniest book tells the adventures of Wol and Weeps, two owls from Saskatchewan who shape up a whole neighbourhood, turn a house topsy-turvy, and outsmart Mutt, the dog hero of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Wol brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the postman, and the French teacher. Weeps is a comical bird, afraid of everything except Mutt, and he never does learn how to fly. Here is the heartwarming story of how a boy named Billy finds Wol and Weeps and unwittingly adds two new members to the family.
Tells how the European settlers of the New World, and generations of their successors, have exploited, massacred, and even extirpated numerous animal species
