 Book details:November 2012
ISBN 978-1-77100-044-4
Paperback 5" x 7 3/4" 360 pages Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs $21.95 CAD
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Douglas & McIntyrePeople of the DeerIn 1886, the Ihalmiut of northern Canada numbered 7,000 souls; by 1946, when 25-year-old Farley Mowat travelled to the Arctic, their population had dwindled to only 40. Living among them, he observed the millennia-old migration of the caribou and endured the bleak winters, food shortages and continual, devastating intrusions of interlopers bent on exploiting the Arctic. In this seminal book, Mowat details a genocide wrought by misunderstanding and neglect. Debated long after its publication, this powerful story of the Ihalmiut continues to haunt the Canadian conscience. |
About the Author Farley MowatFarley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921. He began writing upon his return from serving in World War II, and has since written 44 books. He ... more >>Related Books Born Naked Sea of Slaughter |