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Author
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1953, Mowat searched for peace by retracing his wartime steps in Europe. He needed to see what the land - and its people - were like when not ravaged by mud, rain, metal, and death. Traveling by car with his wife, Frances, Mowat revisits England, France, and the nightmarish battlefields of Italy where tragically high numbers of his Canadian friends and comrades had fallen. Mowat's wise and candid travel narrative describes his meeting...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In High Latitudes Farley Mowat chronicles for the first time a sometimes hazardous journey he took across northern Canada in 1966. He hoped to write a book that would let northern people speak for themselves and that would expose the speciousness of the political idea that the North was "a bloody great wasteland" with no people in it, and therefore resource developers could exploit it however they chose. For reasons Mowat describes that book did not...
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