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Farley Mowat
Step into the world of sagas, longships and enigmatic Norse explorers with Farley Mowat's captivating historical account, Westviking.
The Viking sagas speak of a land called Vinland, a place of…
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A [biography] of the Canadian writer Farley Mowat, who has spent a lifetime writing about the destructiveness of twentieth-century industrial and technological excesses. [canada]
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A canine character named Mutt refuses to accept the limitations of being a dog.
When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a lagoon near his Newfoundland home, Farley Mowat rejoiced at the unique chance to observe one of the world’s most magnificent creatures…
First published in Canada in 1969 by McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto/Montreal –Copyright pages.
Originally published in hardcover by Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1963 –T.p. verso.
A humorous account of the author’s excursions through the Maritime Provinces in a thirty-one-foot craft that was barely seaworthy.
The story of an astonishing band of Canadian soldiers and their part in the Allied victory in Italy. The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was ..
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A new piece of the puzzle of Farley Mowat’s life: the years from his return from the north in the late 1940s to his discovery of Newfoundland and his love…
Before the events of his classic Never Cry Wolf, the young Farley Mowat honed his naturalist skills through all manner of boyhood adventures. Born Naked tells of the same period…
This is the story of a love affair with a people and a place, of the summers Farley Mowat spent sailing the Newfoundland coast with his wife Claire. It is…
A Canadian icon gives us his final book, a memoir of the events that shaped this beloved writer and activist.
Farley Mowat has been beguiling readers for fifty years now…
First published by The Curtis Publishing Company in 1957 –Title page verso.
In July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat. This title provides an account of the action he saw, fighting desperately to…
The follow-up to And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat’s memoir My Father’s Son charts the course of a family relationship in the midst of extreme trial. Taking place during Mowat’s…
This inquiry looks at sibling relations, exploring why individuals from the same family are little more similiar in personality than people from different families. It shows how birth-order is fundamental…
The adventures of two owls who shake up an entire neighborhood and turn a house topsy-turvy.
Two brothers must face the wilderness with no food and no hope of rescue when their canoe is destroyed by the rapids.
The classic first book from one of the world’s best-loved storytellers, Farley Mowat’s unforgettable account of a people driven nearly to extinction by the trespasses of Western culture
The adventures of two owls who shake up an entire neighborhood and turn a house topsy-turvy. Full color.
The story of an astonishing band of Canadian soldiers and their part in the Allied victory in Italy. The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canada's most…
The hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service in the North Atlantic.
Originally published: Toronto: Key Porter Books, c2002.
From one of the best-known and best-loved storytellers in the world comes another unforgettable memoir, the highly anticipated bridge between PEOPLE OF THE DEER and NEVER CRY WOLF
In a voice alternately filled with rage, humor, and pathos, Mowat seasons his story with photos, maps, and verbatim transcriptions of testimonies from northern peoples, Inuit and white, at a…
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canada’s most decorated regiment in the Second World War. In The Regiment, Farley Mowat, famed novelist and member of the…
