Farley Mowat Libri

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure. When first published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens won the Governor-General’s Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and the Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award.

A canine character named Mutt refuses to accept the limitations of being a dog

A true story of life among the Arctic wolves by one of Canad's greatest storytellers and conservationists.

In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the authorities, but it was too late-ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died. A plea for the end of commercial hunting of the whale, this moving account blends all the tension of the life-and-death struggle for one animal's survival with the drama of man's wanton destruction of life-bearing creatures and the environment itself.Author Biography: Farley Mowat is one of the world's foremost nature writers and conservationists. He is the author of 39 books, including Never Cry Wolf, Sea of Slaughter, and The Snow Walker. He and his wife, Claire Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.

A humorous account of the author's excursions through the Maritime Provinces in a thirty-one-foot craft that was barely seaworthy

Farley Mowat's funniest book tells the adventures of Wol and Weeps, two owls from Saskatchewan who shape up a whole neighbourhood, turn a house topsy-turvy, and outsmart Mutt, the dog hero of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Wol brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the postman, and the French teacher. Weeps is a comical bird, afraid of everything except Mutt, and he never does learn how to fly. Here is the heartwarming story of how a boy named Billy finds Wol and Weeps and unwittingly adds two new members to the family.

Farley Mowat, bestselling author of Never Cry Wolf, A Whale for the Killing, and The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, calls Seal of Slaughter his most important work...a book he felt compelled to write after witnessing the drastic decline in the rich diversity of wildlife along the Northeastern seaboard. Farley Mowat does not tell of the extinction of one species. His unforgettable narrative tells of the devastation of all different types of animal life from a region where the forests once teemed with game, where the fish could be scooped up with baskets...and where the Eskimo curlew fell in clouds of thousands to sportsmen who used them for target practice before turning their guns to clay pigeons. With his unique storytelling gift, Farley Mowat details why some creatures, such as the gentle penguin-like great auk, have vanished forever. And he astounds us with his account of the killing that continues--of wolf and whale, seal and bear, fish and fowl. Monumental in scope, chilling in its impact, Sea of Slaughter is a warning, a vision, and a powerful testament for preserving the living grandeur fast disappearing from our world.

Classic works by one of North America's greatest storytellers brought back to print in a new paperback series. Inspiration for the major motion picture from Infinity Media and First Look International.

The Black Joke is a rousing sea story in the tradition of the great classic pirate tales. The time is the 1930s. The loot is bootleg liquor, not pirate gold. And the ship is the “Black Joke,” the speediest, nimblest craft on the Newfoundland coast – Jonathon Spence, owner and master. An unwelcome passenger enmeshes the boat and her crew (young Peter and Kye) in danger and near destruction…until the fiercely independent people of the island of Miquelon are caught up in the fate of the “Black Joke” and the cargo aboard her.

In 1953, Farley Mowat, a Canadian infantryman during World War II, returned to Europe, a place he knew only during the ravages of wartime. Together with his wife, he returns to England, France, and Italy to reexamine the past and find hope in the future. This is a unique and compelling look at a world that has undergone dramatic changes in the last fifty years, described in vintage Farley Mowat style.

"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be--the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer--which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself." --from the new Preface Never Cry Wolf is a brilliant narrative on the myth and magic of wild wolves and man's true place among the creatures of nature, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their ways. 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. As Mowat comes closer to the wolf world, he comes to fear with them the onslaught of bounty hunters and government exterminators out to erase the noble wolf community from the Arctic.

A burning indictment against the extinction of a people - the Thalmiut of northern Canada.

In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the authorities, but it was too late-ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died. A plea for the end of commercial hunting of the whale, this moving account blends all the tension of the life-and-death struggle for one animal's survival with the drama of man's wanton destruction of life-bearing creatures and the environment itself. Author Biography: Farley Mowat is one of the world's foremost nature writers and conservationists. He is the author of 39 books, including Never Cry Wolf, Sea of Slaughter, and The Snow Walker. He and his wife, Claire Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Vědec - biolog, pověřený kanadskou vládou k prozkoumání problému "šelma - vlk a kořist - sob", odhalil předsudky a pověry o vlcích, a zvláště pak skutečnost, že nikoli vlci ničí stáda sobů, ale chamtiví lidé, kteří se neštítí z pouhé ziskuchtivosti postřílet z letadla třeba celé stádo.

Vyprávění vědce-biologa o jeho dvouletém pobytu v kanadské tundře. Někde na východě zavyl vlk; lehce, tázavě. Znal jsem ten hlas neboť jsem jej slyšel již mnohokrát předtím. Byl to George, volající v pustině, aby uslyšel ozvěnu chybějících členů své rodiny. Ale pro mě to byl hlas,který mluvil o ztraceném světě, který byl kdysi náš, než jsme si zvolili roli cizinců; svět, který jsem spatřil a téměř do něho vstoupil, abych se nakonec zase sám z něho vyloučil. Těmito slovy končí autor své vyprávění o dvouletém pobytu v kanadské tundře. Vědec - biolog, pověřený kanadskou vládou k prozkoumání problému šelma - vlk a kořist - sob, odhalil předsudky a pověry o vlcích, a zvláště pak skutečnost, že nikoliv vlci ničí stáda sobů, ale chamtiví lidé, kteří se neštítí z pouhé ziskuchtivosti postřílet z letadla celé stádo. Proto knížka - jinak plná humoru a láskyplného vztahu k přírodě - končí trochu zatrpklou úvahou. (Text z obálkyknihy)

Invaze spojeneckých jednotek na Sicílii a do Itálie očima jednoho z členů kanandských jednotek.

Farley Mowat, geboren in Belleville/Kanada und studierter Biologe, begleitete bereits als Vierzehnjähriger seinen Onkel auf einer Polarreise. Mit seinem Erlebnisbericht «Ein Sommer mit Wölfen» schrieb er später einen Klassiker. Ferner veröffentlichte er ein Dutzend Bücher über die Eskimos, den Nordpol, eine Expedition nach Sibirien und Neufundland, wo er auf einer der abgelegenen Inseln lebt.

Geschäfte in Baku/Mitten im Leben/Ein Sommer mit Wölfen/Abschied auf Englisch - bk425; Verlag "Das Beste"; Alexander Nemow/Nancy Rossi/Farley Mowat/Peter Lovesey; Paperback; 1985

Povídky ze života eskymáků: 1. Sníh 2. Oslepnutí André Malocha. 3. Cizinec v Taransay. 4. Železní muži. 5. Dva, co byli jeden. 6. Krev v jejich žilách. 7. Pes a vlk. 8. Poutník sněžných plání. 9. Šťastnou cestu, bratře! 10.Bílá kanoe. 11. Susie a její temná odysea. Z anglického originálu The Snow Walker vydaného nakladatelstvím McClelland and Steward Limited v Torontu roku 1975 přeložil dr. Josef Poláček, CSc. Mapu nakreslil Karel Zpěvák. 232 stran textu, 12 černobílých ilustrací. 1. vydání.

Dva kluci - běloch Jamie a indián Awasin se ztratí dospělým členům lovecké výpravy. Poznají co je to přežít, když vše si musí udělat spolu. Identifikační číslo tohoto vydání knihy je 27-017-71.

O této knize by se dalo říci, že se jedná o námořní román. Publikace byla napsána na podkladě skutečných událostí. Zachycuje úsilí o záchranu anglické lodi Leicesteru, která v létě roku 1948 plula z Evropy do Ameriky. Byla poškozena orkánem Hadí spirála natolik, že ji posádka v čele skapitánem Lawsonem musela za dramatických okolností opustit.

Dobrodružný román vypráví o výpravě tří statečných chlapců, kteří se vydávají z kanadského severu po stopách vikinských památek ze 14. století.

Kniha popisuje a je doplněna i deníky prvních výprav které se pokoušely dobývat severní pól.

Hluboce zasvěcená a lidsky zanícená reportáž o životě vnitrozemských Eskymáků na severovýchodě Kanady. Kniha o osudech kmene Ihalmiutů, o lidech v zoufalství, poskytuje nejen napínavou četbu, ale je i oslavou hrdinství společností opomenutého člověka našeho věku.

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