My Father's Son (General) - Hardcover

Mowat, Farley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550134302 ISBN 13: 9781550134308

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1993

Canada's best-known storyteller, the famed author of And No Birds Sang, Never Cry Wolf, and A Whale for the Killing has at long last given readers a book about the most powerful influence on his life: his father. Here is Mowat's memoirs of his service in World War II, his letters to and from his father, and his bizarre tale of steering German war materials back home to Canada. Photographs.

From the Publisher:

"Unique, fearless, mischievous, always entertaining."- The Toronto Sun

"Gripping."-The Ottawa Citizen

About the Author:

FARLEY MOWAT began writing for a living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. He has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He is author of 39 books, including People of the Deer, Never Cry Wolf, Sea of Slaughter, The Snow Walker, And No Birds Sang, and No Man's River. With sales of more than 14 million copies in 25 languages, Farley Mowat is one of Canada's most successful writers. He and his wife, Claire Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.