55 pages • 1 hour read
Farley MowatNever Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1963A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Literature
A Whale for the Killing, by Farley Mowat, Amereon Ltd., 1999
Like Never Cry Wolf, Farley wrote of a trapped whale in Newfoundland and the way profiteers and naturalists fought over saving it versus harvesting it; like Never Cry Wolf, the book was also turned into a motion picture.
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, Mariner Books, 2002
Published one year before Never Cry Wolf, Carson was the prophetic voice speaking out against harmful herbicides and pesticides; like Farley, she was pilloried by the moneyed opponents.
Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)
The World of Farley Mowat, by Farley Mowat, Seal Books, 1982
This book is a wide-ranging memoir that focuses on Farley’s ecological prophecies.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert, Bloomsbury USA, 2015
Like Farley, Kolbert is a long-time environmental writer and activist who updated her previous material to stress humanity’s self-destructive activities.
Video & Podcast Resources
Concerned that developers would take over his natural habitat acreage, Farley ceded his land to a nature trust.
Never Cry Wolf, directed by Carroll Ballard, Disney, 1988
Ballard’s version of the book varies primarily in the characterizations of the key figures; readers may want to compare the two versions of Farley’s story.
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