I was impr One of my favorite books from high school days. Farley Mowat is probably Canada's best author. His most commercially successful work, "Never Cry Wolf" was adapted for the big screen, too.
Yes, he gets some "Eskimo bootie", too, so it's not all dry academia. Mowat always has an engaging writing style. I get so immersed in his world. This book, greatness and sadness. Basically an ethnography of the Inuit inland Eskimoes and their trials and way of life. Although this story is quite dated, it contains a message about the dangerous costs of "progress" on our natural resources and the people who rely on them for survival.
Mowat is a fantastic story teller, and this novel keeps the reader absorbed form cover to cover. This was my introduction to Farley Mowat as an author. I've never been able to get enough. His passing is sad. This is an interesting, informative, and historically important book that suffers from a few significant flaws. It's historically important, because it brought significant attention to the Ihalmiut people of what is now Nunavut, resulting in actual political action to assist their situation.
The results were mixed and the Canadian government - just a few years ago - issued a formal apology , but it was a substantial attempt. It's interesting, because it's a smoothly-written, often poetic introduc Farley Mowat also spoke up for the native people whose lives were destroyed by the destruction of essential food animals. He also exposed and publicised the horrific truth of plague and utter destruction of whole villages in few short months.
He did this by joining a dying Eskimo Innuit tribe for a few short months, and got them to develo I really liked how it keeps you interested and makes you want to read more. I enjoy the atmosphere he is surrounded b I picked up this musty old book at the library used book sale because it had a book cover that showed Eskimos on it, and I'm so glad I did.
It was published in , but the author Farley Mowat was ahead of his time, because he lovingly portrayed the culture of the Ihalmiut people without belittling them because their life was different Western civilization. Mowat lived with the Ihalmiut people for several years and learned their language.
The Ihalmiuts are Inuits that lived in the "Barrens" wes In a book that is written in the same laid-back, conversational tone as his other works, Farley Mowat took me on a journey to and through a place that I've never been to and will likely never see. It was entirely unexpected and wholly engrossing to spend some time with the Ihalmiut of the Barrens, whose everyday existence can be so alien and so familiar all at once. This is not a diary or logbook of his interactions, but a collection of highlights from what was clearly a trip far outside the comf While its immersive look at the lives of an otherwise seemingly under-documented people is compelling for its era, I can't finish this book.
It's been dragging out in fits and starts for a year now and I haven't been able to put my finger on exactly what bothers me so much about it until now. I feel like I am reading the transcript of a s wildlife documentary and not the story of a group of people. The main characters of the story might as well be caribou and not human beings for all the sto This was so so good, and I can only hope what he wrote about was true because the writing made me think he was a great ally to the Ihalmiut.
In this book Farley tells of his time with the Inuit people of central north Nunavut who depended on life not from sea mammals but rather from the caribou. This is both an extraordinary tale as well as a very sad one in that it is from a time when the People of the Deer's population plunged due to the ways in which their traditional life style was severely and negatively impacted by the entry of European Americans into their lands forever changing them.
People of the Deer is a tear-jerker of a read. I never met Farley Mowat and I truly wanted to as I spent some time traversing the areas he and Barry Lopez in Arctic Dreams writes about so beautifully. People of the Deer is must reading for people wanting to know more about the plight of the Great North. An incredibly sad account of the caribou-eating Ihalmiut people, who endured the Great Pain brought by the white people.
The Ihalmiut lived in the Barrens just south of the Arctic Circle, and sustained themselves from caribou for all things food and shelter until their way of life was turned upside down by trappers, traders, and missionaries.
This is an excellent book that shows what some native cultures are like. In one sense the book is easy to read the author's good writing style , but in another sense it is difficult to read because it reveals how white men's arrogance has mis- treated and helped to destroy native cultures, which is disturbing.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Beautiful book and great perspective on Native American history and the difficulties they faced to keep their tribes and heritage alive. Create Free Account. Sign Up Browse. Browse Sign Up. Save for later Add to list. People of the Deer Farley Mowat. Read Download.
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