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Farley Mowat

Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1963

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Further Reading & Resources

Further Reading: Literature

A Whale for the Killing, by Farley Mowat, Amereon Ltd., 1999

Like Never Cry Wolf, Farley wrote of a trapped whale in Newfoundland and the way profiteers and naturalists fought over saving it versus harvesting it; like Never Cry Wolf, the book was also turned into a motion picture.

Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, Mariner Books, 2002

Published one year before Never Cry Wolf, Carson was the prophetic voice speaking out against harmful herbicides and pesticides; like Farley, she was pilloried by the moneyed opponents.

Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)

The World of Farley Mowat, by Farley Mowat, Seal Books, 1982

This book is a wide-ranging memoir that focuses on Farley’s ecological prophecies.

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert, Bloomsbury USA, 2015

Like Farley, Kolbert is a long-time environmental writer and activist who updated her previous material to stress humanity’s self-destructive activities.

Video & Podcast Resources

Concerned that developers would take over his natural habitat acreage, Farley ceded his land to a nature trust.

Never Cry Wolf, directed by Carroll Ballard, Disney, 1988

Ballard’s version of the book varies primarily in the characterizations of the key figures; readers may want to compare the two versions of Farley’s story.

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