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IT IS A long way in time and space from the bathroom of my Grandmother Mowat's house in Oakville, Ontario, to the bottom of a wolf den in the Barren Lands of central Keewatin, and I have no intention of retracing the entire road which lies between. Read the first page
I first read Never Cry Wolf when I was about 10 or 12, and it is a book I have reread every five years or so since. At the time it changed my opinion of wolves from a typical "bloodthirty scarey creatures" to a more rounded opinion. Mowat's unscientific techniques and his dry sense of humour liven up the book and make it an entertaining, as well as an informative, read. It is also a case-in-point of how men have blamed other animals for their own depredations - in this case the wolves were being blamed for the sudden slaughter of Canadian caribou in the 1960s. (This same thing still happens today - seals are blamed on the Scottish coast for the sudden disappearance of large fish stocks. Hmmm.) "Never Cry Wolf" has been one of my all-time-favourite books - I could recommend it to both adults and teenagers.
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Sent by a government agency to establish the facts against the arctic wolf, by proving that it was a resolute and unflinching killer of caribou, the youthful Mowat actually discovered (for what was not to be the only time in his life) that man was the only serious threat in the North and that the wolf was quietly feasting on mice instead of "deer". A heart-rending tale, told by a true believer in all things animal and human, this is a book which should be compulsory reading for all schoolchildren. Mowat has done us a great service by pointing out that we cannot continue to treat the natural world as if its many denizens were of no importance, even to us. Finding out the truth about the wolf also helped Mowat, and us, find out something very important about ourselves; it's a lesson we need to learn and relearn and never forget. Never Cry Wolf will long remain a startling but lonely cry from a remote wilderness.
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This book by the Canadian naturalist Farley Mowat, which was made into a film in 1983, is an account, often humorous, of Mowat's study of the natural behavior of the arctic wolf in the treeless environs of northern Canada in the late 1940s. He had been sent up there to study the wolf and bring back data on how much the wolf population had been the apparent cause of the large decline in the caribou population. What he discovered was a detailed family life and the controversial observation that there no threat at all for the caribou (or to humans) from the wolves. This book is a classic in conservation literature. It shows the love man has of nature and how we should protect it. As most ranchers will tell you, coyotes are much more of a problem than wolves and wolves help keep the coyote population down.
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I read this book because I liked the movie. Luckily this was one of those rare movies that was made pretty true to the spirit of the book. Mowat mixes all kinds of descriptions and facts within the narrative, and it's all the more compelling because he wrote based on his own experience. I have gone on to read every Mowat book I can find...
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I was introduced to this book by word of mouth some years ago, and would highly recommend it. A lovely story, based on Farley Mowat's real life experiences in Alaska. Having been posted to this remote location in Alaska, as a punishment of sorts, to report on the wolves, and their destruction of caribou, he makes witty 'subtle' observations on the reality - man's demonising of the wolves... and the human hunters' responsibility for the slaughter of the caribou - not the wolves! This is a very heartwarming read, and at times I found myself laughing out loud at Farley's dry, witty observations and remarks. Thoroughly recommended.
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"Never Cry Wolf" by Farley Mowat is touching, instructive and laugh out loud funny. The book is based on Mowat's study of wolves and caribou for two summers and a winter in Canada's subarctic regions in the late 1940s. Employed as a biologist with the federal government of Canada he was asked to confirm that the wolves were a threat to man and were decimating the caribou herds. What he found instead is that wolves do not pose a threat to other species and are neither a danger or a real competitor with man. Wolves serve a vital role in maintaining the long term well-being of a species as they eat only the sick, aged and weak. Mowat says a pack of wolves is far less destructive than a single man with a gun. Mowat enthralling accounts show that wolves are a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young. The people who monitor and work with the recently introduced wolf packs in Yellowstone confirmed Mowat findings and have a similar reverence and awe. My first reading of "Never Cry Wolf" in the early 80s changed the way I view wolves. They don't kill for fun, kill more than they can use and are a necessary and natural part of a healthy ecosystem. Mowat fears that the ongoing onslaught of bounty hunters and government exterminators will erase the wolf communities from the Arctic. He warns in his 1993 book preface, "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be - the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer - which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself."
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