A Canadian icon gives us his final book a memoir of the events that shapedthis beloved writer and activist. Farley Mowat has been beguiling readers forfifty yea... » 

A Canadian icon gives us his final book a memoir of the events that shapedthis beloved writer and activist. Farley Mowat has been beguiling readers forfifty years now creating a body of writing that has thrilled two generationsselling literally millions of copies in the process. In looking back over hisaccomplishments we are reminded of his groundbreaking work He singlehandedlybegan the rehabilitation of the wolf with Never Cry Wolf. He was the first tobring advocacy activism on behalf of the Inuit and their northern lands withPeople of the Deer and The Desperate People. And his was the first populistvoice raised in defense of the environment and of the creatures with whom weshare our world the ones he has always called The Others. Otherwise is amemoir of the years between 1937 and the autumn of 1948 that tells the story ofthe events that forged the writer and activist. His was an innocent childhoodspent free of normal strictures and largely in the company of an assortment ofdogs owls squirrels snakes rabbits and other wildlife. From this he wascatapulted into wartime service as anxious as any other young man of hisgeneration to get to Europe and the fighting. The carnage of the Italiancampaign shattered his faith in humanity forever and he returned home unableand unwilling to fit into postwar Canadian life. Desperate he accepted astint on a scientific collecting expedition to the Barrengrounds. There in thebleak but beautiful landscape he finds his purpose first with the wolves andthen with the indomitable but desperately starving Ihalmiut. Out of theseexperiences come his first pitched battles with an ignorant and uncaringfederal bureaucracy as he tries to get aid for the faminestricken Inuit. Andout of these experiences too come his first books. Otherwise goes to theheart of who and what Farley Mowat is a wondrous final achievement from a truetitan. From the Hardcover edition. «