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Samuel Bryant. Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Canada's Greatest Storyteller, Farley Mowat, the author of Never Cry Wolf. The Classic Tale of Courage and Survival. ALSO KNOWN AS: The author wishes to thank the Atlantic Monthly for permission to use here some material that first appeared in its pages. CONTENTS: Foreword; Foreword to the New Edition; I The Why and Wherefore; II Into the Barrenlands; III The Intruders; IV The Children; V The Lifeblood of the Land; VI Under the Little Hills; VII Feast and Famine; VIII Of Houses and Tongues; IX Eskimo Spring; X These Are Their Days; XI The Boy and the Black One; XII The Shape of the Law; XIII Kakumee; XIV The Breaker of the Law; XV Stone Men and Dead Men; XVI From the Inland Sea; XVII Ghosts, Devils and Spirits; XVIII Ohoto; XIX Days of His Father; XX Last Days of the People; XXI The Days to Come. SYNOPSIS: THEY WERE IN HARMONY WITH THE LAND BUT THEY WERE ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION. Sixty years ago, the Ihalmiut numbered 7, 000. When Farley Mowat visited them, their population had dwindled to forty. For two years, Mowat shared their hard life-the bleak winters, the shortages of food, the fervent struggle to withstand the intrusion of white men-and came to understand them. Here, Farley Mowat indicts those who have abused the Ihalmiut. But, foremost, he pays tribute to the last of the People of the Deer-the proud, valiant Eskimos, desperately trying to survive. Born in Belleville, Ontario in 1921, Mowat grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto and Richmond Hill as his librarian father moved a household that included a miniature menagerie around the country; those early adventures were chronicled in Owls in the Family and The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. During World War II Mowat served in the army, entering as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. The experience of battle seared the imagination of the young soldier and ultimately gave rise to And No Birds Sang, a gripping eyewitness account of combat in Italy and Sicily. Following his discharge, Mowat renewed his interest in the Canadian Arctic, an area he had first visited as a young man with an ornithologist uncle. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He has said of himself, "I am a Northern Man… I like to think I am a reincarnation of the Norse saga men and, like them, my chief concern is with the tales of men, and other animals, living under conditions of natural adversity." His experiences have inspired such works as People of the Deer, The Desperate People, Never Cry Wolf, A Whale for the Killing and The Boat Who Wouldn't Float. Farley Mowat's books have been published in over twenty languages in more than forty countries.
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