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| Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves | 
| Author: Farley Mowat
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 17587
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0316881791
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.773
EAN: 9780316881791
ASIN: 0316881791
Publication Date: September 13, 2001
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 Never Cry Wolf: Amazing True Story of Life Among Artic Wolves January 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You'll laugh and you'll cry at the early adventures of this real life naturalist. Farley Mowat's writing is a joy to read, his words conjure up pictures in your mind and keep you turning the pages. Then you'll remember that there was a movie by the same title and you'll rent the CD which will also not disappoint you. After that, you'll want to know more about Mowat, his remarkable childhood and how he became the person he is today.
Never Cry Wolf, Great Book! December 21, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Never Cry Wolf is a great book. I would reccomend it to people who really like animals and enjoy reading about it. I really like the way Farley Mowat writes. He writes with a sense of humor which is fun to read. Even though we are young students we really enjoyed the book and learned a lot from it, but at the same time couldn't believe what we were reading. This book really shows how we need to take a better look at are surronding animals. It's a great book and i would definatly reccomend it.
7th grade students from minneapolis, mn
Excellent book for kids and adults alike December 21, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Farley Mowat's 'Never Cry Wolf' is a funny book composed of descriptive, smooth storyline that details Mowat's year living among the Artic wolves and northern Inuits. I would reccommend it to all readers.
Never Cry wolf is a n excellent book November 7, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this book so I could read it a second time. I enjoyed it almost as much as the first time. I like all of Farley Mowat's writing and stories of Eskimo life.
 Comedian As Scientist Entertains As He Informs September 28, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I picked this book up recently for the first time since high-school, some 15-plus (!) years ago. Maybe it was Steve Irwin's death, or a viewing of the documentary Grizzly Man, that got me to thinking about it- either way, I'm glad I did. I'd forgotten what a wacky character Farley Mowat was, and how much more there is to this quick read than dry scientific reporting.
Mowat's communing with the wolves (circa 1950) was partially borne of pure, scientific curiosity; in his own words, he "took the word biology- which means the study of life- at its face value," and sought to immerse himself outdoors and away from an aseptic laboratory. The other thing engendering his research was the vagary of the Canadian government, which set him to studying wolves in Ottawa with a throw of the dice (not to mention next to no itinerary, instructions, or training).
Mowat dispelled major myths of wolf as bloodthirsty, marauding monsters, and showed them to be gentle, caring, and family-oriented (in fact, mostly monogamous) creatures. He never felt threatened by his lupine companions, despite keeping quarters very close to- and at one point, entering- the den. He witnessed "George, Angeline, and Uncle Albert" engage in compassionate acts like nurturing and training young pups and serving as hosts for traveling packs of non-native wolves. The chapter at the narrative's end ("To Kill A Wolf") describing the indiscriminate and government-promoted wolf hunting practices is made sadder by the way the wolves have by then won the reader's heart.
What made this nature tale really shine, however, was Mowat's plucky attitude and unconventional scientific methodology. He alternately horrified Eskimo locals and won them over with alcohol. He pretty much ignored what little government protocol he had to follow until nearly the end of his trip, cramming in his duties like a high-schooler churning out a last-minute term paper. He learned to sleep via a nightly succession of 5-10 minute "wolf-naps" (and told of later ticking off a female companion understandably unused to the practice). And the- ahem- frosting on the cake was his approach to scientifically determine whether or not large mammals could sustain themselves on a diet of mice alone, after discovering over time that rodents constituted the majority of the wolves' diet: he ate nothing but the same, for months on end. God bless unorthodox scientific discoveries, and the lovable nut jobs that make them.
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