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"I was conceived in a green canoe on the Bay of Quinte and born in a taxi between Trenton and Belleville."1 An auspicious beginning for a man who would spend much of his life moving around. "I grew up pretty much an outcast. For a variety of reasons, one...

Farley Mowat is considered by many to be "Canada's most famous author of nature lore," according to John Bemrose writing in Maclean's. With nearly forty published books and fourteen million copies of his works printed in thirty-five languages, Mowat's in...

Farley McGill Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, on 12 May 1921, the son of Angus McGill and Helen E. Thomson Mowat. Educated in public schools in Ontario and Saskatchewan, he completed his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1949 after serving over...

The film Never Cry Wolf, inspired by Farley Mowatt's novel, begins with some reminiscing by a young scientist (i.e., Tyler) about his travels to the Arctic to demonstrate that wolves had been preying on the caribou population. For years, we are told, the...

PETER ABRAHAMS. Ballantine, $25 (336p) ISBN 0-345-42385-2 Edgar nominee Abrahams (Lights Out; A Perfect Crime) returns with a suspense novel built around kidnapping, extortion and youthful stupidity. Nat is the eager, sports-loving valedictorian of his smalltown Colorado high school. With his $2,000...

Farley Mowat is a trained scientist with a skeptic's mind. There is need to recall this at the outset, because in ["Never Cry Wolf"] he strains his readers' credulity to a point at which it would certainly snap in less trustworthy hands…. To some, no doubt, it will be a surprise that he found every wolf fable a fallacy, and over the months developed a profound affection and admiration for his study subjects, which he found to be kingly creatures possessed of every virtue a...

Farley Mowat, official biologist for the Canadian government, plane hitch-hiked far to the Canadian north into the heart of the Keewatin Barren Lands to find out how wolves lived. While his new book ["Never Cry Wolf"] seems to start slowly, it quickens considerably when a decrepit and creaky airplane, resuscitated by an ex-R.A.F. pilot, flew Mr. Mowat and a mountain of supplies out of Churchill onto a Barrens frozen lake the exact location of which neither the pilot, nor Mr. Mowat knew.

"Never Cry Wolf" is a humourous tale on the pattern of the "Eye-Opener," beginning with an hilarous take-off on that mine of comedy, the former Department of Mines and Resources. On their behalf the author is sent to study wolves in the Barrenlands, and specifically to determine the extent to which they eat caribou. He concludes that wolves do not eat caribou, they eat mice. If wolves occasionally do eat caribou, it is good for the caribou, who ought to like it. As the study of w...

Naturalist Farley Mowat investigated the huge numbers of caribou deaths in Canada and found that trappers, not wolves, were the primary cause of the deaths. The story of his investigation is told in his book, "Never Cry Wolf."

The following is a lab on the movie "Never Cry Wolf."