Lost In The Barrens

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551991856

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Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat Pdf

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure. When first published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens won the Governor-General’s Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and the Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Canada, Northern
ISBN : 9780771066818

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Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat Pdf

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure. When first published in 1956,Lost in the Barrenswon the Governor-General’s Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and the Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551992426

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The Curse of the Viking Grave by Farley Mowat Pdf

The popular sequel to his award-winning Lost in the Barrens, this is Farley Mowat’s suspense-filled story of how Awasin, Jamie and Peetryuk, three adventure-prone boys, stumble upon a cache of Viking relics in an ancient tomb somewhere in the north of Canada. Packed with excitement and with little-known information about the customs of Viking explorers, this story of survival portrays the bond of youthful friendship and the wonders of a virtually unexplored land.

Author : Alison Hughes
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459807969

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Lost in the Backyard by Alison Hughes Pdf

Flynn hates the outdoors. Always has. He barely pays attention in his Outdoor Ed class. He has no interest in doing a book report on Lost in the Barrens. He doesn’t understand why anybody would want to go hiking or camping. But when he gets lost in the wilderness behind his parents’ friends’ house, it’s surprising what he remembers—insulate your clothes with leaves, eat snow to stay hydrated, build a shelter, eat lichen—and how hopelessly inept he is at survival techniques.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551991993

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Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat Pdf

Every child needs to have a pet. No one could argue with that. But what happens when your pet is an owl, and your owl is terrorizing the neighbourhood? In Farley Mowat’s exciting children’s story, a young boy’s pet menagerie – which includes crows, magpies, gophers and a dog – grows out of control with the addition of two cantankerous pet owls. The story of how Wol and Weeps turn the whole town upside down is warm, funny, and bursting with adventure and suspense.

Author : Joe Riederer
Publisher : Big Bluestem Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780967138626

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Restoration in the Barrens by Joe Riederer Pdf

The story of a young teen's struggle to rebuild his life while helping to rebuild a local prairie.

Author : George James Grinnell
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556438820

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Death on the Barrens by George James Grinnell Pdf

Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book takes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy, redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell was one of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led by experienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt. Poorly planned and executed, the journey seemed doomed from the start. Ignoring the approaching winter, the men became entranced with the peace and beauty of the arctic in autumn. As winter closed in, they suddenly faced numbing cold and dwindling food. When the crew is swept over a waterfall, Moffatt is killed and most of the gear and emergency food supplies destroyed. Confronting freezing conditions and near starvation, the remaining crew struggled to make it back to civilization. For Grinnell, the three-month expedition was both a rite of passage and a spiritual odyssey. In the Barrens, he lost his sense of identity and what he had been conditioned to think about society and himself. Forever changed by the experience, he unsparingly describes how the expedition influenced his adult life and what powerful insights he was able to glean from this life-altering experience.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Arctic
ISBN : 0590053817

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Two Against the North by Farley Mowat Pdf

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781771000468

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Sea of Slaughter by Farley Mowat Pdf

The northeastern seaboard of Canada and the United States, extending from Labrador to Cape Cod, was the first region of North America to suffer from human exploitation. Farley Mowat informs extensive historical and biological research with his direct experience living in and observing this region. When it was first published more than 20 years ago, Sea of Slaughter served as a catalyst for environment reform, raising awareness of the decline and destruction of marine and coastal species. Today, it remains a prescient environmental classic, serving, now as ever, as a haunting reminder of the impact of human interest on the natural world.

Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735266117

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The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson Pdf

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551991511

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Bay of Spirits by Farley Mowat Pdf

In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in love with a people and a place, Mowat also met the woman who would be the great love of his life. A stunningly beautiful and talented young artist, Claire Wheeler insouciantly climbed aboard Farley’s beloved but jinxed schooner as it lay on the St. Pierre docks, once again in a cradle for repairs, and changed both their lives forever. This is the story of that love affair, of summers spent sailing the Newfoundland coast, and of their decision to start their life together in Burgeo, one of the province’s last remaining outports. It is also an unforgettable portrait of the last of the outport people and a way of life that had survived for centuries but was now passing forever. Affectionate, unsentimental, this is a burnished gem from an undiminished talent. I was inside my vessel painting the cabin when I heard the sounds of a scuffle nearby. I poked my head out the companionway in time to see a lithesome young woman swarming up the ladder which leaned against Happy Adventure’s flank. Whining expectantly, the shipyard dog was endeavouring to follow this attractive stranger. I could see why. As slim and graceful as a ballet dancer (which, I would later learn, was one of her avocations), she appeared to be wearing a gleaming golden helmet (her own smoothly bobbed head of hair) and was as radiantly lovely as any Saxon goddess. I invited her aboard, while pushing the dog down the ladder. “That’s only Blanche,” I reassured my visitor. “He won’t bite. He’s just, uh . . . being friendly.” “That’s nice to know,” she said sweetly. Then she smiled . . . and I was lost. —From Bay of Spirits

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771064937

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Eastern Passage by Farley Mowat Pdf

Following Farley Mowat’s bestselling memoir, Otherwise, the literary lion returns with an unexpected triumph Eastern Passage is a new and captivating piece of the puzzle of Farley Mowat’s life: the years from his return from the north in the late 1940s to his discovery of Newfoundland and his love affair with the sea in the 1950s. This was a time in which he wrote his first books and weathered his first storms of controversy, a time when he was discovering himself through experiences that, as he writes, "go to the heart of who and what I was" during his formative years as a writer and activist. In the 1950s, with his career taking off but his first marriage troubled, Farley Mowat buys a piece of land northwest of Toronto and attempts to settle down. His accounts of building his home are by turns hilarious and affecting, while the insights into his early work and his relationship with his publishers offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a writer’s career. But in the end, his restless soul could not be pinned to one place, and when his father offered him a chance to sail down the St. Lawrence, he jumped at it, not realizing that his journey would bring him face to face with one of Canada’s more shocking secrets – one most of us still don’t know today. This horrific incident, recalling as it did the lingering aftermath of war, and from which it took the area decades to recover, would forge the final tempering of Mowat as the activist we know today. Farley Mowat grows wiser and more courageous with each passing year, and Eastern Passage is a funny, astute, and moving book that reveals that there is more yet to this fascinating and beloved figure than we think we know.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Hunter House
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Chipewyan Indians
ISBN : 1552636240

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No Man's River by Farley Mowat Pdf

In No Man`s River, master storyteller Farley Mowat delivers a gripping account of adventure in the far north, shared with a Metis trapper as the two men travel over a thousand miles by canoe. In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of the Second World War behind him, Farley Mowat joined a scientific expedition to the north, seeking a saner world. In the remote, northern reaches of Manitoba, he encountered the Idthen Eldeli—People of the Caribou—a Dene people still living according to age-old traditions. Travelling still farther north, Mowat met the Ihalmiut, an Inuit people whose lives also revolved around the caribou. His companion, Metis trapper Charles Schweder, provided Mowat with an entree into the ancient cultures of these native peoples, and he came to know their land and ways with an intimacy achieved by few outsiders. Mowat was based at Windy Post with the Schweder clan, which included two Inuit children. The young girl, Kunee, also known as Rita, is painted with special vividness—checking the traplines 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 awaited her. A rare glimpse into a lost world, No Man’s River is both an adventure tale and a heart-rending story of our indifference to the suffering of native and mixed-race peoples, told by one of the best-loved writers in the world.

Author : William J. Lewis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147873

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New Jersey’s Lost Piney Culture by William J. Lewis Pdf

Deep within the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Piney people have built a vibrant culture and industry from working the natural landscape around them. Foraging skills learned from the local Lenapes were passed down through generations of Piney families who gathered many of the same wild floral products that became staples of the Philadelphia and New York dried flower markets. Important figures such as John Richardson have sought to lift the Pineys from rural poverty by recording and marketing their craftsmanship. As the state government sought to preserve the Pine Barrens and develop the region, Piney culture was frequently threatened and stigmatized. Author and advocate William J. Lewis charts the history of the Pineys, what being a Piney means today and their legacy among the beauty of the Pine Barrens.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771000307

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And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat Pdf

Mowat's gripping account of how a young man, excited by the prospect of battle, is transformed into a war-weary veteran.