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Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowat

  • 215 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1963
  • 42 editions
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1 About this book

Biologist Farley Mowat was dropped into Eskimo lands by the Canadian Government, that was looking for an excuse to eradicate wolves. What he discovered instead was astonishing. The Eskimos were listening to wolves from five miles away, messages from the Canis lupus telegraph system. One example was the instance that two men and a woman were going to arrive in three days. All these communications were veridicated! Their social structure was self-aware and intelligent. They were NOT eating up all the caribou, as the Government wanted to project, but cleaning up mice in plague proportions. Yum.

His scientific reportage was meanwhile hilariously funny, and the book is magnificent.

  • Nature stories
  • Animal behavior
  • Behavior
  • Mammals
  • Wolves
  • Loups
  • Arctic regions

2 About Farley Mowat

1921–2014

Farley McGill Mowat (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as People of the Deer (1952) and Never Cry Wolf (1963). The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in the Arctic, was made into a film of the same name released in 1983.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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