The Farley Mowat Reader
Contributors: Wendy Thomas (Editor); Richard Row (Illustrator)
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781570981753
Subjects: Literary Criticism; Siberia (Russia); English Canadian Prose; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Mowat, Farley; General; LIT004080; LIT; American - General; Canadian; Canada, Northern; Description and travel
Description: Through these selections, readers gain entry into the unique and fascinating world of Farley Mowat.

In these tales, we meet Mowat's unusual animal companions, especially the goggle-wearing, fence-walking Mutt, whose antics seem born of an overriding belief that he was never simply a dog; we accompany fifteen-year-old Mowat on the first of his many trips to the Arctic, where he finds himself looking into the eyes of a mother polar bear with two cubs; and we share in Mowat's misadventures at sea in his continuing quest to fulfill his father's dream of having a salt-water sailor for a son.

Through it all, these anecdotes reveal how the extraordinary experiences of Mowat's own life became fodder for the books that have captivated readers the world over.