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The Farfarers

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616082372
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Farfarers written by Farley Mowat and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach North America. Mowat offers instead an unforgettable portrait of the Albans, a people originating from the island now known as Britain. Battered by repeated invasions from their aggressive neighbors--Celt, Roman, and Norse--the Albans boarded seaworthy, skin-covered boats and fled west. Their search for safety, and for the massive walrus herds on which their survival depended, took them first to Iceland, then to Greenland, and finally to the land now known as Newfoundland and Labrador."--P. [4] of cover.

The Far-Farers

Author : Victoria Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802714226
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Far-Farers written by Victoria Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Why Angels Fall follows the odyssey of Thorvald, an eleventh-century Viking Christian, who left his Icelandic homeland to make an epic journey to Jerusalem, offering an intriguing study of western Christendom at a time of dramatic changes in Western Europe and the Holy Land.

Westviking

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771624086
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Westviking written by Farley Mowat and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the world of sagas, longships, and enigmatic Norse explorers with Farley Mowat’s captivating historical account, Westviking. The Viking sagas speak of a land called Vinland, a place of abundant resources and possibilities. Nearly a thousand years after the events those tales describe, Farley Mowat sets out to decipher these ancient accounts and trace their path along the rugged coastlines of the North Atlantic. In this celebrated classic, first published in 1965, Mowat’s immersive storytelling brings Viking culture to life as he tells the story of Viking settlement in Vinland—now thought to include areas of Newfoundland and New Brunswick—five hundred years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. With the vivid prose that made him a bestselling author and beloved storyteller, Mowat follows the stories of Norsemen like Erik the Red, Leif Erikson, Bjarni Herjolfsson and Thorfinn Karlsefni, unravelling their struggles and triumphs as they set sail for the uncharted waters of the New World—then face the challenges of a new and unfamiliar land. Meticulously researched and grippingly told, Mowat infuses his own adventurous spirit into the little-known story of the Viking culture that once took hold on the edges of North America.

Lost in the Barrens

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991853
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Barrens written by Farley Mowat and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure. When first published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens won the Governor-General’s Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and the Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award.

Owls in the Family

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991993
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Owls in the Family written by Farley Mowat and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child needs to have a pet. No one could argue with that. But what happens when your pet is an owl, and your owl is terrorizing the neighbourhood? In Farley Mowat’s exciting children’s story, a young boy’s pet menagerie – which includes crows, magpies, gophers and a dog – grows out of control with the addition of two cantankerous pet owls. The story of how Wol and Weeps turn the whole town upside down is warm, funny, and bursting with adventure and suspense.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567926347
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Dog Who Wouldn't Be written by Farley Mowat and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published by The Curtis Publishing Company in 1957"--Title page verso.

The Alban Quest

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753810880
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Alban Quest written by Farley Mowat and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a portrait of the Albans, a seafaring tribe who originated in the country now known as Scotland. Battered by repeated Celtic, Norse and Roman invasions, the Albans fled west, first to Iceland, then to Greenland and finally across the Atlantic to Canada.

The Snow Walker

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811731461
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Snow Walker written by Farley Mowat and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ten tales of the Arctic, rendering hardy praise to the land and its people, past and present, and focusing on the elemental bonds between men and between men and the world and on survival"--NoveList.

Otherwise

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 077106490X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Otherwise written by Farley Mowat and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Canadian icon gives us his final book, a memoir of the events that shaped this beloved writer and activist. Farley Mowat has been beguiling readers for fifty years now, creating a body of writing that has thrilled two generations, selling literally millions of copies in the process. In looking back over his accomplishments, we are reminded of his groundbreaking work: He single-handedly began the rehabilitation of the wolf with Never Cry Wolf. He was the first to bring advocacy activism on behalf of the Inuit and their northern lands with People of the Deer and The Desperate People. And his was the first populist voice raised in defense of the environment and of the creatures with whom we share our world, the ones he has always called The Others. Otherwise is a memoir of the years between 1937 and the autumn of 1948 that tells the story of the events that forged the writer and activist. His was an innocent childhood, spent free of normal strictures, and largely in the company of an assortment of dogs, owls, squirrels, snakes, rabbits, and other wildlife. From this, he was catapulted into wartime service, as anxious as any other young man of his generation to get to Europe and the fighting. The carnage of the Italian campaign shattered his faith in humanity forever, and he returned home unable and unwilling to fit into post-war Canadian life. Desperate, he accepted a stint on a scientific collecting expedition to the Barrengrounds. There in the bleak but beautiful landscape he finds his purpose – first with the wolves and then with the indomitable but desperately starving Ihalmiut. Out of these experiences come his first pitched battles with an ignorant and uncaring federal bureaucracy as he tries to get aid for the famine-stricken Inuit. And out of these experiences, too, come his first books. Otherwise goes to the heart of who and what Farley Mowat is, a wondrous final achievement from a true titan.

Sea of Slaughter

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771000465
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Sea of Slaughter written by Farley Mowat and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2012 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The northeastern seaboard of Canada and the United States, extending from Labrador to Cape Cod, was the first region of North America to suffer from human exploitation. Farley Mowat informs extensive historical and biological research with his direct experience living in and observing this region. When it was first published more than 20 years ago, Sea of Slaughter served as a catalyst for environment reform, raising awareness of the decline and destruction of marine and coastal species. Today, it remains a prescient environmental classic, serving, now as ever, as a haunting reminder of the impact of human interest on the natural world.

The Desperate People

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780771065910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book The Desperate People written by Farley Mowat and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of suffering and partial extinction of Ihalmiut Eskimo, District of Keewatin, NWT.

Aftermath

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780811733380
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Aftermath written by Farley Mowat and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Farley Mowat, a Canadian infantryman during World War II, returned to Europe, a place he only knew during the ravages of wartime. Together with his wife, he returns to England, France, and Italy to reexamine the past and find hope in the future. This is a unique and compellingly look at a world that has undergone dramatic changes in the last fifty years, described in vintage Farley Mowat style.

Verne Sankey

Author : Timothy W. Bjorkman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182539
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Verne Sankey written by Timothy W. Bjorkman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late January of 1934, as authorities delivered John Dillinger to an Indiana jail, the United States Justice Department announced, for the first time, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had just captured America’s Public Enemy No. 1. It was not Dillinger the Justice Department was referring to, but an affable railroader turned outlaw, Verne Sankey. Now Timothy W. Bjorkman has written the first full-length biography of this overlooked criminal, relating how a South Dakota family man became a bootlegger, a bank robber, and eventually, a kidnapper whose deeds heralded a nationwide crime spree. In the early days of Prohibition, Sankey, then a locomotive engineer, was drawn to the easy money he could make bootlegging. When crime syndicates monopolized the trade and Prohibition’s end was in sight, he turned to the occasional bank robbery and eventually to a ransom scheme. In tracing the life of Sankey—and his demure wife, Fern—Bjorkman depicts a good-natured man, friendly neighbor, and gentleman rumrunner catering to the banker and broker trade. He also explores Sankey’s motivations, his identification as America’s first Public Enemy, and his ultimate descent into oblivion. Verne Sankey: America’s First Public Enemy is a riveting narrative set amid the Great Depression. Bjorkman’s research painstakingly reveals the life of Verne Sankey and his times, delving into the intriguing story of the family of his kidnapping victim, Charles Boettcher II, and the stark contrast between wealth and poverty during some of America’s most harrowing days.

Bay of Spirits

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991519
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Bay of Spirits written by Farley Mowat and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in love with a people and a place, Mowat also met the woman who would be the great love of his life. A stunningly beautiful and talented young artist, Claire Wheeler insouciantly climbed aboard Farley’s beloved but jinxed schooner as it lay on the St. Pierre docks, once again in a cradle for repairs, and changed both their lives forever. This is the story of that love affair, of summers spent sailing the Newfoundland coast, and of their decision to start their life together in Burgeo, one of the province’s last remaining outports. It is also an unforgettable portrait of the last of the outport people and a way of life that had survived for centuries but was now passing forever. Affectionate, unsentimental, this is a burnished gem from an undiminished talent. I was inside my vessel painting the cabin when I heard the sounds of a scuffle nearby. I poked my head out the companionway in time to see a lithesome young woman swarming up the ladder which leaned against Happy Adventure’s flank. Whining expectantly, the shipyard dog was endeavouring to follow this attractive stranger. I could see why. As slim and graceful as a ballet dancer (which, I would later learn, was one of her avocations), she appeared to be wearing a gleaming golden helmet (her own smoothly bobbed head of hair) and was as radiantly lovely as any Saxon goddess. I invited her aboard, while pushing the dog down the ladder. “That’s only Blanche,” I reassured my visitor. “He won’t bite. He’s just, uh . . . being friendly.” “That’s nice to know,” she said sweetly. Then she smiled . . . and I was lost. —From Bay of Spirits

A Whale for the Killing

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771000287
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Whale for the Killing written by Farley Mowat and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling true story of the author's desperate attempts to save an eighty-ton fin whale trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon. As he tries to persuade wildlife authorities and the Canadian press to help him in his quest, he must fend off curious and uncaring locals, who want to harvest the helpless whale for sport. As it tells one of Mowat's most personal and moving stories, this book becomes an impassioned plea to save a species that seems doomed to extinction. A classic nature book now back in print. In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the authorities, but it was too late-ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died. A plea for the end of commercial hunting of the whale, this moving account blends all the tension of the life-and-death struggle for one animal's survival with the drama of man's wanton destruction of life-bearing creatures and the environment itself.

My Father's Son

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1771000880
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book My Father's Son written by Farley Mowat and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat’s memoir My Father’s Son charts the course of a family relationship in the midst of extreme trial. Taking place during Mowat’s years in the Italian Campaign, the memoir is mostly told through original letters between Mowat and his mother, Helen, and his father, Angus, a World War I veteran and librarian. Written between 1943 and 1945, the correspondence depicts the coming of age of a young writer in the midst of war, and presents a sensitive and thoughtful reflection of the chaos and occasional comedy of wartime. First published in 1992, Douglas & McIntyre is pleased to add My Father’s Son to the Farley Mowat Library series, which includes the other recently re-released titles Sea of Slaughter, People of the Deer, A Whale for the Killing, And No Birds Sang, Born Naked and The Snow Walker.

Born Naked

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1771000929
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Born Naked written by Farley Mowat and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farley Mowat's outrageous memoir begins with his unlikely conception in a canoe and continues to his boyhood fascination with creatures of the natural world and on to his youthful rambles and adventures. To his immense pleasure and his parents' dismay, he adopted various beasts (whom he affectionately calls "The Others") as roommates. In this boyhood memoir, he recounts the exploits of this second family, who have been the subjects of many of his beloved books for young readers. This is the tale of a mischievous, immensely gifted young naturalist, recounted with the wisdom, humor and grown-up perspective of a very talented writer.