Never Cry Wolf Summary
Farley Mowat

Never Cry Wolf Summary

Farley Mowat is chosen by his Department to investigate the slaughter of large quantities of caribou in the arctic. According to polls conducted on trappers and hunters in the arctic, the increase in caribou murders is directly correlated to a rise in the number of arctic wolves, which kill without purpose.

Farley, left alone in the arctic to study the murderous habits of wolves and to determine just how vicious the wolves are, meets a half-Eskimo, half-white trapper named Mike who allows Mowat to use his cabin as a base of operations. Mowat soon finds a wolf den located near the cabin and begins studying the habits of the wolves that live there. After several face-to-face encounters with these wolves, Farley begins to see them not as the murderous predators of myth, but as rational, conservative and family-oriented beings.

Farley is later joined by one of Mike's friends, an Inuit... View more of the Never Cry Wolf Summary