No Man's River

by Mowat, Farley

• ISBN13: 9780786714308
• ISBN10: 0786714301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-19
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

With No Man's River, Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This book chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as they struggle to eke out a living in a brutal environment. In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of WWII behind him, Mowat joined a scientific expedition. In the remote reaches of Manitoba, he witnessed an Eskimo population ravaged by starvation and disease brought about by the white man. In his efforts to provide the natives with some of the assistance that the government failed to provide, Mowat set out on an arduous journey that collided with one of nature's most arresting phenomenathe migration of the Arctic's caribou herds. Mowat was based at Windy Post with a Metis trapper and two Ihalmiut children. A young girl, known as Rita, is painted with special vividnesschecking the trap lines 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 befell her. Combining his exquisite portraits with awe-inspiring passages on the power of nature, No Man's River is another riveting memoir from one of North America's most beloved writers.

Author Biography

FARLEY MOWAT began writing for his 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 Siberia. He is the author of 38 books, including People of the Deer, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be, Never Cry Wolf, A Whale for the Killing, Aftermath, My Father’s Son, And No Birds Sang, The Farfarers, Walking on the Land, The Snow Walker, and High Latitudes. He and his wife, writer Claire Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Table of Contents

The Why and the Wherefore	p. 1
The Incomers	p. 17
The Incomers	p. 19
Living on the Land	p. 31
Brothers	p. 41
A Spring to Remember	p. 57
Windy Post	p. 71
Windy Post	p. 73
Man and Lemmings	p. 87
Science Loses one	p. 97
Idthen Eldeli	p. 111
Southbound	p. 113
Many Islands Lake	p. 123
Telequoisie	p. 136
Brochet	p. 147
Kasmere's River	p. 163
Climbing the Cochrane	p. 165
Two to Remember	p. 174
Kasmere's Grave	p. 185
Kasmere's Birds	p. 196
Putahow	p. 207
Arctic Prairie	p. 219
Homecoming	p. 221
Land of Little Sticks	p. 232
The Deer's Way	p. 244
No Man's River	p. 255
Big River	p. 257
River Dogs	p. 268
Eskimo Charlie	p. 277
Kumiut	p. 291
Tavanni Not	p. 302
Aftermath	p. 317
Charles	p. 319
Rita	p. 331
Author's Note	p. 341
Index	p. 343
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