Critical Essay by Albert Hubbell
["People of the Deer"] is a book about the inland Eskimos of the Barrens—the half-million square miles of plains, lakes, and low hills west of Hud...
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Critical Essay by Walter O'hearn
Canada's angriest young man is Farley Mowat, who writes out of a desperate concern for the vanishing Eskimo….
Mr. Mowat has told some of [the Ihal...
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Critical Essay by T. Morris Longstreth
["People of the Deer"] issues from [Mowat's] fondness for these People of the Deer and from his concern over their plight. Between these cov...
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Critical Essay by Clifford Wilson
A very long review would be needed to point out all the errors and misleading statements in [People of the Deer, a] well-written and plausible book, and to document t...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[People of the Deer] describes what has happened to the deer and the people since the white man began to trade in the Arctic…. It is at once a co...
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Critical Essay by Scott Young
A literary battle without modern parallel in Canada has been banging and crashing just below the horizon for the last few months. The fight is over the book called ...
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Critical Essay by A. E. Porsild
In his recent article: "Storm over the Arctic" [see excerpt above], Mr. Young imputes certain rather farfetched motives for my review of Farley Mowat�...
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