Walking on the Land - Softcover

Farley Mowat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586420240 ISBN 13: 9781586420246

Publisher: Steerforth, 2001

Using one of his own trips through the Eastern Arctic as a starting point, Farley Mowat interweaves the stories of the Barren Ground Inuit with stunning, lyrical descriptions of the Northern landscape.

With great beauty and terrible anguish, Mowat traces the history of the Inuit, revealing how the arrival of the Kablunait — white man — in the early part of the century and the subsequent obliteration of the caribou herds combined to unleash a series of famines and epidemics that virtually wiped out the Barren Ground Inuit population.

Full of larger-than-life characters — old-time Hudson's Bay company men, eccentric priests, wild bush pilots and well-meaning interlopers — Walking on the Land is an unforgettable account by one of Canada's most committed and impassioned voices.

From the Back Cover:

"Mowat's art is to make metaphors out of his personal experience, to bring home realities as through parable." — The Globe and Mail

"Farley Mowat is a brilliant writer." — James Herriot

About the Author:

Farley Mowat was born in Ontario in 1921. He served in World War II and spent the better part of two years in the Arctic before he began writing for a living in 1949. He is the author of thirty-seven books which combined have sold more than 14 million copies in 52 languages. He and his wife, Claire Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.