Mowet, Farley

Farley McGill Mowet was born May 12, 1921 in Belleville , Ontario , Canada . His father, Angus Mowet, took part in the battle of Wimi , after the war he became a librarian and wrote literary works. During the Great Depression, the family moved to Saskatoon . In Saskatoon, Farley kept a rattlesnake , a squirrel, two owls, a Florida alligator and several cats at home. In 1935, he made his first trip to the Arctic with his relative Frank.

During World War II, Farley Mowet took part in military operations in Europe as part of the American army , participated in the landing of allied forces in Sicily , fought in Western Europe and met with Soviet soldiers on the Elbe in 1945 .

After the war, Mowet graduated from the Biology Department of the University of Toronto ^[5] . Then he went to work in the Service for the study of wildlife in Canada . This organization sent him (no later than 1959 ) to the Canadian tundra to study wolves . That expedition, which yielded very unexpected and surprising results for that time, is described by Moweth in the book “ Do Not Shout:“ Wolves! ” ” ^[6] .

In 1981 he became an officer of the Order of Canada . One of the ships of the environmental organization Society for the Protection of Marine Fauna was named after him.

Farley McGill Mowet died on May 6, 2014 at his home in Port Hope. ^[7]

• 1952 - People of the Deer
• 1955 - The Regiment
• 1956 - In the land of snow storms (Lost in the Barrens (Two Against the North))
• 1957 - The Dog Who Won't Just Be a Dog (The Dog Who Wouldn't Be)
• 1958 - Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure
• 1959 - Gray Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Missions of a North Atlantic Salvage Tug
• 1959 - The Desperate People
• 1960 - Ordeal by Ice
• 1961 - Owls in the Family
• 1961 - The Serpent's Coil: An Incredible Story of Hurricane-Battered ships the Heroic Men Who Fought to Save Them
• 1962 - The Black Joke
• 1963 - Do not shout: “Wolves!” ( Never Cry Wolf ), filmed in 1983 (in the Russian box office: “ Do not call the wolves ”)
• 1965 - Westviking
• 1966 - The Curse of the Viking Grave
• 1967 - Canada North
• 1967 - The Polar Passion
• 1968 - This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost
• 1969 - The Schooner Who Won't Float (The Boat Who Wouldn't Float)
• 1970 - The Siberians
• 1970 - Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia
• 1972 - A Whale for the Killing
• 1973 - Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages
• 1973 - Wake of the Great Sealers
• 1975 - The Snow Walker, a storybook; based on the story “Forward, my brother, forward!” in 2003 the film “ Walking in the Snow (film) ” was shot
• 1975 - Death of a People-the Ihalmiut
• 1976 - Canada North Now: The Great Betrayal
• 1979 - And No Birds Sang
• 1980 - World of Farley Mowat
• 1984 - Tragedies of the Sea (Sea of ​​Slaughter)
• 1985 - My Discovery of America
• 1987 - Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey
• 1987 - Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey
• 1989 - The New Founde Land
• 1990 - Rescue the Earth !: Conversations with the Green Crusaders
• 1993 - My Father's Son
• 1994 - Born Naked
• 1995 - Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World
• 1998 - From the Aryans to the Vikings, or Who discovered America (The Farfarers: Before the Norse)
• 1999 - The Alban Quest The Search for a Lost Tribe
• 2000 - Walking on the Land (2000)
• 2002 - High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey
• 2004 - No Man's River
• 2006 - Bay of Spirits: A Love Story
• 2008 - Otherwise

The following books were published in the USSR :

• “Desperate People” (Foreign Literature, 1963)
• The Ice Test (Progress, 1966)
• “Do not shout:“ Wolves! ”” (Mir, 1968)
• The Curse of the Viking Grave (Children's Literature 1972)
• “The Whale for the Slaughter” (Gidrometeoizdat, 1977)
• “A dog that did not want to be just a dog” (Children's Literature, Leningrad, 1981)
• “People of the Deer Land” (Magadan Book Publishing House, 1983)
• “Go, my brother, go!” (Izvestia, 1983, series “Library of the journal Foreign Literature”)
• "In the country of snow storms" (Children's literature. Leningrad, 1984)
• “Footprints in the Snow” (“Journey to Coppermine,” a collection of short stories “Leaving the Snow”) (Thought, 1985)
• “My Discovery of America” (International Relations, 1987)
• “Tragedies of the Sea” (Progress, 1988)

Later editions:

• “The Ice Test” (Armada Press, 2001, Green Series. Around the World; ISBN 5-309-00026-7 )
• “The schooner who did not want to swim”, “The Serpentine Ring” (Armada Press, 2002)
• “From the Aryans to the Vikings, or who discovered America” (Eksmo, 2004)

• " Walking in the snow "
• " Do not call the wolves "

Canadian biologist Alexander William Francis Banfield criticized one of Mowet’s most famous books, “ Don't Cry: Wolves!” ". He argues that the book is based not so much on Mowet’s personal experience as on the work of other scholars and is a "fact-based fiction." Moreover, some statements (for example, that wolves feed mainly on rodents) do not correspond to reality ^[8] .

• Farley Mowet photo page
• Farley Mowet Interview for Around the World Magazine, February 1967