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No Man's River is vintage Farley Mowat. Canada's greatest storyteller has crafted a tale of adventure peopled with characters that are destined to become part of the reader's consciousness. From the opening paragraph Mowat contrasts the innocence of his childhood--so familiar to his legions of fans--with the experience of his young adulthood on the battlefields of Europe. Mowat's desire to leave a world "apparently created and run by maniacs" leads him to join the Keewatin Zoological Expedition and travel to Windy Lake in the eastern subarctic. There he lives with a Metis and Inuit clan and with the zoologist leader of the expedition. Unfortunately, Mowat does not find the innocent world of his childhood memories, but rather a world in turmoil, where the delicate balance of life has been shattered by the arrival of bush pilots, traders, trappers, and missionaries. Windy Lake marks an edge zone, the boundary between the boreal forest to the south and the Barrenlands to the north. The peoples of these two regions had lived in an uneasy peace for centuries, but the arrival of the "outsiders" destroyed the balance and brought disease, famine, and cultural capitulation. With great nuance, Mowat describes the tragic effects of change in a shifting moral landscape. In the end, the reader is left to decide questions of right and wrong, but there can be no question about Mowat's contribution. This is a great book. -- William Newbigging
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Having written more than 35 books (People of the Deer; Never Cry Wolf; etc.), Mowat (b. 1921) is certainly the pre-eminent chronicler of life on the Arctic frontier. Now he details an early Arctic adventure, a journey he took in 1947. After serving in the Canadian infantry in WWII, Mowat sought a peaceful, picturesque life in northern Manitoba, where he found circumstances that were less barbaric, but just as hard. Mowat describes joining a two-man zoological expedition on its way to an isolated camp run by a young trapper, Charles Schweder, and his family. Mowat's relationship with his expedition partner soon deteriorated, and he befriended Schweder. The two set out to help the local Eskimo population, who were struggling with smallpox and famine caused by dwindling caribou herds—all the while under pressure themselves to survive on the barren land: stockpiling meat, conserving ammunition and scrambling from shelter to shelter. The book's heart lies with the conflicts among Schweder, his racist father, his brooding brother and the Eskimo children who came into their home. Mowat's vivid descriptions and careful storytelling bring the northern frontier to life as well as any fictional account, yet the characters are real and the adversities loom large. As a result, the quiet, sad fates that meet many of Mowat's friends—both natives and pioneers—will have a lasting effect on readers.
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