Farley McGill Mowat was a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors. Many of his most popular works have been memoirs of his childhood, his war service, and his work as a naturalist. His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 14 million books. Mowat studied biology at the University of Toronto. During a field trip to the Arctic, Mowat became outraged at the plight of the Ihalmiut, a Caribou Inuit band, which he attributed to misunderstanding by whites. His outrage led him to publish his first novel, People of the Deer (1952). This book made Mowat into a literary celebrity and was largely responsible for the shift in the Canadian government's Inuit policy: the government began shipping meat and dry goods to a people they previously denied existed. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship RV Farley Mowat was named in honour of him, and he frequently visited it to assist its mission.
Books
Never Cry Wolf
1963
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
1957
Lost in the Barrens
1956
The Black Joke
1962
The Snow Walker
1975
Woman in the Mists
The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
1987
My Discovery of America
1985
The Serpent's Coil
1974
The Desperate People
1957
Otherwise
2008
Sibir
My Discovery of Siberia
1970
Eastern Passage
2010
The New Founde Land
1989
A Whale for the Killing
1972
Gorillas in the Mist
2009
And No Birds Sang
1979
The Siberians
1971
No Man's River
2004
The Grey Seas Under
1958
Sea of Slaughter
1984
High Latitudes
An Arctic Journey
2002
Owls in the Family
1961
The Regiment
1974
Ordeal by Ice
1973
Aftermath
Travels in a Post-War World
1996
The World of Farley Mowat
A Selection from His Works
1980
Westviking
The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America
1968
People of the Deer
1950
The Farfarers
A New History of North America
1998
My Father's Son
1993
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
1969
The Curse of the Viking Grave
1966
Bay of Spirits
A Love Story
2006
The Polar Passion
1967
Born Naked
The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry Wolf
1992
Canada North Now
The Great Betrayal
1976
Walking on the land
2000
