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High Latitudes: The Incredible True Story of an Arctic Journey by Master Storyteller Farley Mowat (17 Million Books Sold) Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Farley Mowat; Foreword by Margaret Atwood
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In a voice alternately filled with rage, humor, and pathos, Mowat seasons his story with photos, maps, and verbatim transcriptions of testimonies from northern peoples, Inuit and white, at a time when the old ways of life were disappearing.
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In "High Latitudes Farley Mowat chronicles for the first time a sometimes hazardous journey he took across northern Canada in 1966. He hoped to write a book that would let northern people speak for themselves and that would expose the speciousness of the political idea that the North was "a bloody great wasteland" with no people in it, and therefore resource developers could exploit it however they chose. For reasons Mowat describes that book did not get written then. But here it is now, with the original conversations recorded by Mowat during that epic journey. In vintage Mowat fashion the legendary writer delivers a sweeping narrative brimming with breathtaking nature writing, suspenseful storytelling, larger-than-life characters, ferocious humor, pitiless rage, iconoclastic insights, and compassionate concern.
In her foreword Margaret Atwood writes: ""High Latitudes gives us, with passion and insight, a vertical section of time past -- the time that preceded our present. The choices that were made then affect our now, just as the choices we make now will determine the future. . . . It's both depressing and cheering to note the changes that have taken place since 1966. On the one hand, more damage and devastation, both natural and social, with global warming as a contributing factor. On the other hand, an increased optimism. . . But as Farley Mowat has always known, and as more and more people have come to agree, it's a race against time, and time -- not just for the North, but for the planet -- is running out."
In her foreword Margaret Atwood writes: ""High Latitudes gives us, with passion and insight, a vertical section of time past -- the time that preceded our present. The choices that were made then affect our now, just as the choices we make now will determine the future. . . . It's both depressing and cheering to note the changes that have taken place since 1966. On the one hand, more damage and devastation, both natural and social, with global warming as a contributing factor. On the other hand, an increased optimism. . . But as Farley Mowat has always known, and as more and more people have come to agree, it's a race against time, and time -- not just for the North, but for the planet -- is running out."
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- Title High Latitudes: The Incredible True Story of an Arctic Journey by Master Storyteller Farley Mowat (17 Million Books Sold)
- Author Farley Mowat; Foreword by Margaret Atwood
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Skyhorse Publishing, New York
- Publication date 2012-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781616086022 / 1616086025
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.35 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Cultural Region: Arctic/Antarctic
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Category Travel - General
- Library of Congress subjects Canada, Northern - Description and travel, Natural history - Canada, Northern
- Dewey Decimal Code 971.9
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