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The serpent's coil (A Ballantine Bal-Hi book)

6 reviews
Farley Mowat

Ballantine, 1969

The ship who wouldn?t sink
Farley Mowat had already written a book titled "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float," so he could very easily have called this volume, "The Ship Who Wouldn't Sink." "The Serpent's Coil" is a companion book to "Grey Seas Under" and continues the story of ocean-going salvage tug operations in the Atlantic. "Grey Seas Under" chronicled the adventures of the tugboat `Foundation Franklin' before and during ...

Curse of the Viking Grave

3 reviews
Farley Mowat

Little Brown & Co (Juv), 1966

Another great adventure story by Farley Mowat
"The Curse of the Viking Grave" is the seqel to "Lost in the Barrens". Both books are great adventure stories for young people and adults. My dad is in his 80s, a lifelong outdoorsman, and he really enjoyed reading this book. As in "Lost in the Barrens", there are a lot of authentic details about survival and the history of the north, including fascinating parts about hunting methods of the ...

Westviking: The ancient Norse in Greenland and North America (Minerva Press M54)

2 reviews
Farley Mowat

Minerva Press, 1968

Mowat rethinks the Norse discovery of America
Canadian author Farley Mowat is perhaps the best-equipped person alive today (1998) to take a look at the remote history of the Norse voyages to North America. Combining the skills of seamanship, navigation and amateur anthropology with those of the historian and trained scientist (he is a biologist), this unique writer has brought a very fine light to bear in this 1965 work which is just as ...

And No Birds Sang

13 reviews
Farley Mowat

Seal Books, 1982

An Anti-War War Read
This book was a great surprise for me. I picked it up at a local library because I saw the name Mowat and thought, "Funny, Isn't he a Canadian naturalist? What's he doing in the History section?" What followed was a fascinating voyage of war,adventure,hilarity and,ultimately,tragedy and pain. Walking into the experience of WWII with a completely innocent demeanor, anxious to get into a fight, ...

No Man's River

5 reviews
Farley Mowat

Key Porter Books, 2004

Tough Guy in a Tough Land
Readers can count this book as one more captivating true tale of Canada's far north, told by its best-read authority. The young Farley Mowat, returning disillusioned from the War in 1947 and thinking to become a biologist, joined with a taxonomist on a collecting "scientific" expedition into the Barren Lands of Northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The headstrong 26 year old was improbably paired ...

Grey Seas Under

13 reviews
Farley Mowat

Ballantine Books, 1974

Riveting slice of marine history
This book is an unexpectedly riveting episode-by-episode story of the Foundation Franklin, a marine salvage tug that sailed out of the ports of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the 1930s and '40s. This working ship, built in Scotland in 1916 to craftsman's standards, eventually found itself unused in a Hamburg shipyard in depression-strapped 1930 where it was identified as a possible vessel for ...

Sea of Slaughter

3 reviews
Farley Mowat

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1984, 1984

Perhaps you?re not the slaughtering kind?
Since reading Mowat's "Sea of Slaughter," I can't get a certain picture out of my mind. It is of a sandy ocean beach, miles and miles long, where tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of morse came to socialize every summer until the middle of last century. The morse, or northern walrus, was a stupendous animal, of impressive bearing: a veritable lion of the sea. Yet it comes no more to ...

The Best of Farley Mowat: A Reader

2 reviews
Farley Mowat

Key Porter Books Ltd, 1999

A great introduction to Mowat's work
Like most Americans, I had never heard of Farley Mowat until I made the association of the Disney film "Never Cry Wolf" with his name on a book spine one day. I loved the movie, so I figured I might as well try out the book. I adored Never Cry Wolf, but you often hear that a writer has one good book in him (or her), and after that it is all downhill. Furthermore, I looked in the library ...

Born Naked

5 reviews
Farley Mowat

Wheeler Pub Inc, 1994

If Only My Childhood Was Like His....
I've been a big fan of Farley Mowat's literary style since I first read Never Cry Wolf back in junior high school. Even as a 9th grade Earth Science teacher, I show the silver screen adaptation of this great novel. Born Naked, however, is of different 'stuff' than Never Cry Wolf. Here is a book written in a light, easy-to-read fashion that highlights his early years in this great world. We, the ...

Woman in the Mists

7 reviews
Farley Mowat

Grand Central Publishing, 1988

A sympathetic portrait of a complicated woman
Another engrossing and fascinating Mowat title, another Mowat "must read", "Woman in the Mists" is the sympathetic biography of a woman whose work gave us a window into the world of the mountain gorilla, a species to whose protection and conservation she was devoted. By alternating excerpts from her diary entries and personal letters with his own descriptive text, Mowat brings Dian Fossey, a ...

Megatoons: Cartoonists Against Nuclear War

1 review
David Rosen, Farley Mowat

Eden Pr, 1984

Great Book of Canadian Editorial Cartoons!
This compilation includes the work of many of the best Canadian cartoonists, such as Aislin, Bierman and Rosen. The subject - impending work destruction is serious, but at least you may be able to laugh at the stupidity of mankind (or Homo Politicus).

GREY (Gray) SEAS UNDER - Atlantic Rescue - Saga of the Salvage Tugs Book (1) One

1 review
Farley Mowat

Bantam Seal Books, 1981

Great read, historic view of salvage tugs
This is an excellent read, start to finish. It gives a general history of the salvage tug industry and goes into great detail as to the daily issues that plague the tug industry still today dealing with equipment failure and tight time schedules and weather.

Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World

1 review
Farley Mowat

Denver Museum of, 1996

Travels through place and time: Europe in the 50s
Farley Mowat has written a number of books which may be described as war memoirs. Since they were written at decent intervals and to some extent, for different purposes, there is a degree of repetition. Nevertheless, as there is hardly ever a dull moment in a text by Mowat, we can forgive him for telling the same story twice. To be honest, I'm no longer certain where the overlap occurs, ...

Owls in the Family

1 review
Farley Mowat

Little, Brown and Company, 1961

Good adventure story for young readers
I read this as a child and recently found it in a box in my parents basement. I am reading it to my six year old son. I have to explain a few things, like it is no longer allowed to go find yourself a pet owl, but he is enjoying the story. It has some other points of political incorrectness, but still an excellent story of boys outdoors.

Virunga Passion of Dian Fossey

2 reviews
Farley Mowat

Bantam Canada, 1988

fascinating insight
Fascinating insight into the life of Dian Fossey. Does not pull any punches. Describes how she walked the fine line between dedication and lunacy.

Ordeal by Ice

1 review
Farley Mowat

McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1989

First-rate history of the Arctic
Farley Mowat first went to Arctic climes as a boy during the 1930s. After the war he returned to the North, and began a career as an author which has continued for half a century. At the same time, he developed a deep attachment to the Canadian wilderness which has led him on a long and extraordinary voyage of personal discovery. In the late fifties, after a decade of Arctic activity, Mowat ...

Coppermine Journey : An Account of Great Adventure Selected from the Journals of Samuel Hearne

1 review
Farley Mowat

McClelland&Stewart, 1990

Coppermine journey
Between 1770 and 1772 a young Samuel Hearne was assigned the task of discovering copper and other valuable mineral resources in the Canadian North. Two attempts were short-lived, but the third succeded at least in reaching the location of the supposed copper mines. Hearne left a written record of these expeditions, but up until 1958 when Coppermine Journey was first published, his book was ...

CANADA NORTH NOW - The Great Betrayal

1 review
Farley Mowat

McClelland and Stewart, 1976

A quarter century old, but still well worth the read.
This book is apparently a revised edition of Canada North which was published nine years earlier in 1967. I have yet to read Canada North, but from what I can gather is that Mowat set out to inform southern Canadians about a vast region of Canada which they had heretofore been ignoring: the vast, supposedly barren tiaga, tundra and arctic lands of the North. Up until this time, Canada was only ...

This Rock within the Sea

1 review
Farley Mowat

McClelland & Stewart, 1976

A Heritage Lost (book's subtitle)
It was serendipity that connected me to this book, found in a library used-books sale. It is an unusual book, especially in today's world, being in black & white (photographs, by John de Visser) and devoid of pagination(!?). It's about 200 pp, glossy, alternating sections of text and associated photographs which are without the explanation (or intrusion) of captions--both are quite good. One ...

And No Birds Sang

1 review
Farley Mowat

Books on Tape, 1990

Farley Mowat's Account Of Coming Of Age During WW II
"An No Bird Sang is FARLEY MOWAT'S ACCOUNT OF COMING OF AGE DURING WW II. Eager and idealistic, Mowat volunteered for service in Canada. He was comissioned and as a young officer participated in the brutal Italian campaign. What he saw awakened in him an awareness, never forgotten, of man's potential for heroism, also of his black side and unlimited....." [from the back cover of the audio ...

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