![]() ![]() ![]() "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be - the mythological epitome of a savage, ruthless killer - which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself." - from the new preface to Never Cry Wolf. The story follows the true story of Farley Mowat. Never Cry Wolf is one of the brilliant narratives on the myth and magical world of wild wolves and man's true place among the creatures of nature. Never Cry Wolf is a 1963 nature account written by Canadian writer and environmentalist Farley Mowat. As Mowat comes closer to the wolf world, he comes to fear with them on onslaught of bounty hunters and government exterminators out to erase the noble wolf community from the Arctic. Contact with his quarry comes quickly, and Mowat discovers not a den of marauding killers but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their waves. ![]() Never Cry Wolf is about Mowat’s adventure as he studies wolves in the Northern Canadian Plains. In Farley Mowat’s book, published in 1963, he makes us rethink why we are still at war with this species. ![]() Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farely Mowat to investigate. Mowat’s rhetorical strategies Wolves for thousands of years have been one of man’s greatest enemies. ![]()
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