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Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowat

1973164 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1973
first published
  • 1973Dell Books · ENGISBN 9780771065828
  • 1979Bantam Books · ENGISBN 9780553203318
  • 1985McClelland and Stewart-Bantam · 164 pages · ENGISBN 9780770420727
  • 1989McClelland-Bantam · 164 pages · ENGISBN 9780770421373
  • 1988Random House Audio · ENGISBN 9780553451337
  • 2009Emblem Editions · 288 pagesISBN 9780771064616
  • 2003Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780613625326
  • 1999Holt Rinehart and Winston · 215 pages · ENGISBN 9780030554582

Biologist Farley Mowat was dropped into Eskimo lands by the Canadian Government, that was looking for an excuse to eradicate wolves. What he discovered instead was astonishing. The Eskimos were listening to wolves from five miles away, messages from the Canis lupus telegraph system. One example was the instance that two men and a woman were going to arrive in three days. All these communications were veridicated! Their social structure was self-aware and intelligent. They were NOT eating up all the caribou, as the Government wanted to project, but cleaning up mice in plague proportions. Yum. His scientific reportage was meanwhile hilariously funny, and the book is magnificent.

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