The Washington Post, June 17th, 2007
BAY OF SPIRITS A Love Story By Farley Mowat Carroll & Graf. 360 pp. $25.95In the summer of 1957, Farley Mowat was 36 years old. He had served with distinction in Europe in World War II, then returned to his native Canada, where he studied biology, married and had two sons. According to the biography in Wikipedia, "during a field trip to the Arctic, [he] became outraged at the plight of the Inuit people," which "led him to publish his first novel, People of the Deer," in 1952. It was the beginning of a very long, productive and distinguished writing career, one that has made him a celebrity in ...
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