Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowat is the author of Never Cry Wolf, a personal memoir and it was published in 1963. This memoir was written so he could tell his experiences in the Arctic with the wolves.

Farley Mowat wanted to be a naturalist and the government gave him a job he could not refuse. He had to go to the Arctic and collect data on the caribou killing wolves. 400 miles north of Churchill, Canada is where he ended up. He met a man named mike who let him stay in his cabin beside a frozen lake.

Mikes family made up the only humans for thousands of square miles. After Farley Mowat started showing him sharp tools and diagrams of cutting animals and people open, Mike soon packed up and left. First exploring Farley found between four and five hundred caribou skeletons around the cabin, which mike later says he must kill for his husky team to eat. A lonely husky quickly changes into a full grown wolf when Farley gets close to it. Next time he sees the wolf there is another with it, playing in the sand.Looking for them again the next day he finds out they were laying 20 feet behind him the whole time.

The lake finally melted and flooded the cabin, so a tent was pitched only ten yards from a hunting path. A boundary was made after the tent was pitched and the wolves never crossed it. Farley figured out the wolves were living on mice much more than caribou. When the heat came the wolves more their pups to a summer den where they could run. He watched the wolves hunting one day and was in a rage when they would not try and attack any of the healthy deer. Watching closely he figured out that they usually only eat the sick and weak deer.

The government was paying people up to twenty dollars to kill wolves. Leaving the lake Farley went to Brochet Winter...

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...ealthy men were getting into helicopters with high powered guns rounding up big groups of caribou and shooting them. The men would then take the racks they wanted and leave. Farley checked out an incident on this and found everything about it to be true. People were using the Caribou for their own fun and games and slaughtering what keeps the tundra alive in the winter. farley Mowat did a fantastic job describing his journey and his thoughts about what was going on. The decision to throw away the devices that would harm the wolves made the story much more bright and hopeful. I loved this book, there were many unexpected events that got my heart pumping, from him seeing the wolf for the first time to him almost falling in the summer den. He did so much detail work he made you feel like you were really there right beside him witnessing all of the events that occurred.