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Farley Mowat

    12 mai 1921 – 6 mai 2014

    Farley Mowat était un auteur et un conservateur canadien renommé dont les œuvres se concentraient souvent sur la faune et les peuples autochtones. Son écriture découlait fréquemment d'une profonde indignation face aux injustices et aux malentendus auxquels étaient confrontés les mondes naturels et les gens, dans le but d'éduquer et d'inspirer les lecteurs à la conservation. Par des récits captivants et des observations perspicaces, Mowat a éclairé les complexités de la vie dans des environnements hostiles, soulignant la nécessité de compassion et de respect pour toutes les formes de vie. Son héritage littéraire réside dans sa capacité à susciter un fort sentiment de responsabilité envers la planète.

    Farley Mowat
    A Whale for the Killing
    Never cry wolf
    The Dog who Wouldn't be
    Lost in the Barrens
    Woman in the Mists
    Dian Fossey au pays des gorilles
    • 1997
      4,8(101)Évaluer

      Vědec - biolog, pověřený kanadskou vládou k prozkoumání problému "šelma - vlk a kořist - sob", odhalil předsudky a pověry o vlcích, a zvláště pak skutečnost, že nikoli vlci ničí stáda sobů, ale chamtiví lidé, kteří se neštítí z pouhé ziskuchtivosti postřílet z letadla třeba celé stádo.

      Vlci
    • 1996

      Owls in the Family

      • 91pages
      • 4 heures de lecture
      4,1(5162)Évaluer

      Farley Mowat's funniest book tells the adventures of Wol and Weeps, two owls from Saskatchewan who shape up a whole neighbourhood, turn a house topsy-turvy, and outsmart Mutt, the dog hero of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Wol brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the postman, and the French teacher. Weeps is a comical bird, afraid of everything except Mutt, and he never does learn how to fly. Here is the heartwarming story of how a boy named Billy finds Wol and Weeps and unwittingly adds two new members to the family.

      Owls in the Family
    • 1995

      Aftermath

      Travels in a Post-War World

      • 239pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      In 1953, Farley Mowat, a Canadian infantryman during World War II, returned to Europe, a place he knew only during the ravages of wartime. Together with his wife, he returns to England, France, and Italy to reexamine the past and find hope in the future. This is a unique and compelling look at a world that has undergone dramatic changes in the last fifty years, described in vintage Farley Mowat style.

      Aftermath
    • 1992

      Today's Best Nonfiction

      A Coward's Chronicles. The Discovery of the Titanic. Woman in the Mists. The Fords

      Today's Best Nonfiction
    • 1992
    • 1988

      Dian Fossey au pays des gorilles

      • 369pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

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      Dian Fossey au pays des gorilles
    • 1988

      Woman in the Mists

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,4(5)Évaluer

      Dian Fossey dedicated her life to saving endangered mountain gorillas from extinction. Living alone in the mist-shrouded lath forests of Central Africa, she fought for their survival against poachers and tribesmen, scientists and zoo collectors, and there, finally, she died for them, brutally murdered in 1985. This extraordinary biography is based on her own archives

      Woman in the Mists