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Based on Farley Mowat's account of his one-man, government-financed expedition into the deeper reaches of northern Canada in search of ethological and biological information about wolves, the film re-creates most of the book's incidents with a minimum of fictional embellishment while sustaining a dramatic momentum of its own. Most important, it is in every sense true to the spirit of Mowat's writing, which mixed self-deprecating hu mor, outrage over man's misunderstanding and misuse of the wilds, and a sense of selfdiscovery...
...Mowat's adventure had prejudiced beginnings. Responding to complaints from hunters, his employers hoped he would prove wolves, whose bad reputation in lore and legend ever precedes them, were responsible for the decimation of the caribou herds of the tundra and offer a justification for lupine slaughter. Mowat found, in stead, that man was the predator, that the wolves, besides being agreeable and intelligent in their domestic ways, performed an invaluable Darwinian function in selecting out the unfit deer. All this Ballard shows in images of great but distinctly unsentimental beauty, stressing the contrast between the blundering ways...
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S. Naipaul
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙ Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙ Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙ Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙ Sex in History, Reay Tannahill ∙ Show People, Kenneth Tynan...