tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post115430215360389271..comments2024-03-14T00:16:32.077-07:00Comments on 50 Books: BOOKS: Is Farley Mowat Still Relevant?Tammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-59775015968365160442007-03-21T22:50:00.000-07:002007-03-21T22:50:00.000-07:00Relevant and interesting. You want a story of har...Relevant and interesting. <BR/><BR/>You want a story of harrowing disaster, injustice and personal resilience? Try "The Desperate People". <BR/><BR/>You want an account of extreme field biology? Try "Never Cry Wolf"<BR/><BR/>You want a picture of life in Siberian Soviet Russia, in the mid-'60's? Try "Siberia". <BR/><BR/>You want an interesting thesis on the last two thousand years in the North Atlantic countries? Read "The Farfarers". <BR/><BR/>And if you just want a good, heartwarming story to read to your kids, read "The Dog Who Wouldn't Be". I first read it over 50 years ago.<BR/><BR/>Farley Mowat may not win the Pulitzer or the Nobel, but his humanity is exemplary, and his work is a continuation and development of the tradition begun by John Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts and Joseph Campbell, in the '30's.<BR/><BR/>Farley has a singular wide-angle vision that takes in the big picture along with the details, and makes an understandable picture of it.<BR/><BR/>I believe he is more relevant than ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1154731859439316952006-08-04T15:50:00.000-07:002006-08-04T15:50:00.000-07:00He used to be relevant, and then he became the dru...He used to be relevant, and then he became the drunk rampaging clown of the Canadian literary world, hoisting his kilt at parties and generally scaring women and children... kind of like the angry Keiths guy of the book world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1154638704294233972006-08-03T13:58:00.000-07:002006-08-03T13:58:00.000-07:00His greatest legacy will be teaching me what snow ...His greatest legacy will be teaching me what snow blindness was back when I was a wee kid -- in Two Against the North (I think).<BR/><BR/>WTG Farley!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com