People of the Deer
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By Farley Mowat
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In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered 7,000 souls; by 1946, when twenty-five-year-old Farley Mowat began a two-year stay in the Arctic, their population had dwindled to only forty. Living among them, he observed for the first time a sight that would inspire the rest of his life: the millennia-old migration of the Arctic’s caribou in their teeming multitudes. With the Ihalmiut, Mowat also endured bleak winters, suffered agonizing shortages of food, and witnessed the continual, devastating intrusions of interlopers bent on exploitation. Here, in the first book to exhibit the prodigious literary talent that would produce some of the most memorable books of the next half-century, Mowat chronicles his harrowing experiences.
People of the Deer is the lyrical portrait of a beautiful and endangered society, and a mournful reproach to those who would manipulate and destroy indigenous cultures anywhere in the world. Most of all, it is a tribute to the last People of the Deer, the Ihalmiut, whose calamitous encounter with modern civilization resulted in their tragic decline.
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"Farley Mowat's books have marked Xs in the sand, and have struck their own igniting sparks. . . . His rage can be Swiftean, his humor Puckish, but his compassion for all creatures great and small has been consistent."--Margaret Atwood
- On Sale
- Dec 21, 2004
- Page Count
- 287 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780786714780
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