Walking on the Land
Mowat, Farley
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Using one of his own trips through the Eastern Arctic as a starting point, Farley Mowat interweaves the stories of the Barren Ground Inuit with stunning, lyrical descriptions of the Northern landscape.
With great beauty and terrible anguish, Mowat traces
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Using one of his own trips through the Eastern Arctic as a starting point, Farley Mowat interweaves the stories of the Barren Ground Inuit with stunning, lyrical descriptions of the Northern landscape.
With great beauty and terrible anguish, Mowat traces the history of the Inuit, revealing how the arrival of the Kablunait white man in the early part of the century and the subsequent obliteration of the caribou herds combined to unleash a series of famines and epidemics that virtually wiped out the Barren Ground Inuit population.
Full of larger-than-life characters old-time Hudson's Bay company men, eccentric priests, wild bush pilots and well-meaning interlopers Walking on the Land is an unforgettable account by one of Canada's most committed and impassioned voices.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Mowat's art is to make metaphors out of his personal experience, to bring home realities as through parable." The Globe and Mail
"Farley Mowat is a brilliant writer." James Herriot
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1586420240
ISBN(13-digit): 9781586420246
Copyright: 2001
Dewey Decimal: 971.9/5800497124
Library of Congress: 00069690
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 208
Paper Weight (lb): 0.65
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