Summary

Farley Mowat began expressing an interest in living biology at age five when he first discovered two catfish in a stagnant pond near his grandmother’s home in Ontario. This childhood event foreshadowed his future scientific endeavors as an adult..When he completed his schooling, he was engaged by the Department of Mines and Resources to investigate the problems of the decreasing deer population, presumed to have been the result of an out of control wolf population. No one had considered the fact that hunters outnumbered deer by five to one at the time. Farley Mowat's investigation took him to Churchill and then beyond to the subarctic Barren Lands.

Analysis

Farley Mowat has a difficult time settling into a career choice at first, although his path would have seemed quite clear had he considered the things that interested him from childhood...