After it was translated into Russian the Soviet government abolished the hunting of wolves. The book led to a more sensitive understanding of wildlife by the public. His sympathetic, humanising portrayal provoked widespread anger from farmers and others who thought wolves were predators to be eliminated. He described the animals in terms of a nuclear family, with parents caring for abandoned pups. Mowat studied biology at the University of Toronto. His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 14 million books. Many of his most popular works have been memoirs of his childhood, his war service, and his work as a naturalist. He wrote about his childhood in a series of warm memoirs and children’s books, including The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be (1957).Īfter working on a scientific study of wolves in Manitoba, Mowat published Never Cry Wolf about the experience in 1963. Farley McGill Mowat was a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1949. He served in the Second World War, returning traumatised by the gruesome scenes he witnessed in Italy. Before he turned 12, Mowat was writing a column on birds for a local paper. His father was a librarian, and in the early 1930s the family settled in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. He was born in 1921, in Belleville, Ontario.
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