With No Man's River, Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This book chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as they struggle to eke out a living in a brutal environment. In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of WWII behind him, Mowat joined a scientific expedition. In the remote reaches of Manitoba, he witnessed an Eskimo population ravaged by starvation and disease brought about by the white man. In his efforts to provide the natives with some of the assistance that the government failed to provide, Mowat set out on an arduous journey that collided with one of nature's most arresting phenomena -- the migration of the Arctic's caribou herds. Mowat was based at Windy Post with a Metis trapper and two Ihalmiut children. A young girl, known as Rita, is painted with special vividness -- checking the trap lines with the men, riding atop a sled, smoking a tiny pipe. Farley returns to the North two decades later and discovers the tragic fate that befell her. Combining his exquisite portraits with awe-inspiring passages on the power of nature, No Man's River is another riveting memoir from one of North America's most beloved writers.
ISBN-13: 9780786716920
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication Date: 01-06-2006
Pages: 320
Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Farley Mowat (1921-2014) is the author of more than forty books. He was a popular and distinguished naturalist and conservationist whose internationally acclaimed novels, books for young readers, and memoirs have been translated into fifty-two languages and have sold more than seventeen million copies.
Table of Contents
|
The Why and the Wherefore |
1 |
| Part 1 |
The Incomers |
17 |
| Chapter 1 |
The Incomers |
19 |
| Chapter 2 |
Living on the Land |
31 |
| Chapter 3 |
Brothers |
41 |
| Chapter 4 |
A Spring to Remember |
57 |
| Part 2 |
Windy Post |
71 |
| Chapter 5 |
Windy Post |
73 |
| Chapter 6 |
Man and Lemmings |
87 |
| Chapter 7 |
Science Loses one |
97 |
| Part 3 |
Idthen Eldeli |
111 |
| Chapter 8 |
Southbound |
113 |
| Chapter 9 |
Many Islands Lake |
123 |
| Chapter 10 |
Telequoisie |
136 |
| Chapter 11 |
Brochet |
147 |
| Part 4 |
Kasmere's River |
163 |
| Chapter 12 |
Climbing the Cochrane |
165 |
| Chapter 13 |
Two to Remember |
174 |
| Chapter 14 |
Kasmere's Grave |
185 |
| Chapter 15 |
Kasmere's Birds |
196 |
| Chapter 16 |
Putahow |
207 |
| Part 5 |
Arctic Prairie |
219 |
| Chapter 17 |
Homecoming |
221 |
| Chapter 18 |
Land of Little Sticks |
232 |
| Chapter 19 |
The Deer's Way |
244 |
| Part 6 |
No Man's River |
255 |
| Chapter 20 |
Big River |
257 |
| Chapter 21 |
River Dogs |
268 |
| Chapter 22 |
Eskimo Charlie |
277 |
| Chapter 23 |
Kumiut |
291 |
| Chapter 24 |
Tavanni Not |
302 |
| Part 7 |
Aftermath |
317 |
| Chapter 25 |
Charles |
319 |
| Chapter 26 |
Rita |
331 |
|
Author's Note |
341 |
|
Index |
343 |
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