Eastern Passage
Following Farley Mowat’s bestselling memoir, Otherwise, the literary lion returns with an unexpected triumph.
Eastern Passage is a new and captivating piece of the puzzle of Farley Mowat’s life: the years from his return from the north in the late 1940s to his discovery of Newfoundland and his love affair with the sea in the 1950s. This was a time in which he wrote his first books and weathered his first storms of controversy, a time when he was discovering himself through experiences that, as he writes, "go to the heart of who and what I was" during his formative years as a writer and activist.
In the 1950s, with his career taking off but his first marriage troubled, Farley Mowat buys…
Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill. He served in World War II from 1940 until 1945, entering the army as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. He began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. He was an inveterate traveler with a passion for remote places and peoples. He wrote 25 books, which have been published in translations in over 20 languages in more than 60 countries. They include such internationally known works as People of the Deer, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be, Never Cry Wolf, Westviking, The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float, Sibir, A Whale for the Killing, The Snow Walker, And No Birds Sang, and Virunga:…
The Curse of the Viking Grave
Farley Mowat
Lost in the Barrens
Farley Mowat
Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat
Owls in the Family
Farley Mowat
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
Farley Mowat
Sibir
Farley Mowat
Eastern Passage
Farley Mowat
Bay of Spirits
Farley Mowat
Gorillas in the Mist
Farley Mowat
Otherwise
Farley Mowat
The Black Joke
Farley Mowat
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Farley Mowat