On Being Farley: Farley Mowat.
Interview with Farley Mowat, who has sold more books than any other Canadian author. His more than 40 books have been translated into over 20 languages, selling 18 million copies in 60 countries. Mowat's writing has covered vast terrains and themes, including his own childhood, the war, and the...
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
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2015.
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| Summary: | Interview with Farley Mowat, who has sold more books than any other Canadian author. His more than 40 books have been translated into over 20 languages, selling 18 million copies in 60 countries. Mowat's writing has covered vast terrains and themes, including his own childhood, the war, and the land and its animals. Through all his books, Mowat has continued to celebrate the non-human world, the world of what he calls "the others," and also to dissect the nobility and the savagery that he finds blended into human nature. Mowat has written children's books such as Lost in the Barrens and Owls in the Family, stories of the sea, historical studies and speculations, and innumerable memoirs. Books like The Grey Seas Under, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be and The Boat Who Wouldn't Float have made him one of the world's most beloved storytellers. But he has another whole dimension as an uncompromising environmental writer, the author of books like Virunga, Rescue the Earth and A Whale for the Killing. A few of his environmental books tell stories that are almost unbearable to read. Mowat often presents himself as a hard-drinking, kilted boisterer, a ring-tailed rowdy in the polite silence of literature. That's a protective shield. Behind it stands a person struggling to resist despair as he contemplates the murderous conduct of human beings towards the natural world and towards each other. In this interview, Silver Donald Cameron concentrated on Mowat's bleak, devastating masterpiece, Sea of Slaughter, and the conversation reveals a person very different from the one you may have thought you knew. Mowat passed away on May 6, 2014, just 6 days shy of his 93rd birthday. |
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