Born on this day – Farley Mowat:

Writer

Environmentalist

May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014

Credits:

Books:

A Whale for the Killing (1972); Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World (1996); And No Birds Sang (1979); Bay of Spirits: A Love Story (2006); Born Naked: The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry Wolf (1992); Canada North Now: The Great Betrayal (1967); Coppermine Journey: An Account of Great Adventure Selected from the Journals of Samuel Hearne (1958); Eastern Passage (2010); High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey (2002); Lost in the Barrens (1956); My Discovery of America (1985); My Father's Son: Memories of War and Peace (1993); Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (1963); No Man's River (2004); Ordeal by Ice: The Search for the Northwest Passage (1960); Otherwise (2008); Out Among the Wolves (1993); Owls in the Family (1961); People of the Deer (1950); Rescue the Earth: Conversations with the Green Crusaders (1990); Sea of Slaughter (1984); Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia (1970); Small Boats on Green Waters (2007); The Black Joke (1962); The Boat Who Wouldn't Float (1969); The Curse of the Viking Grave (1966); The Desperate People (1957); The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957); The Farfarers: Before the Norse (1998); The Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of a N.A. Salvage Tug (1958); The New Founde Land (1989); The Polar Passion: The Quest for the North Pole (1967); The Regiment (1974); The Serpent's Coil (1974); The Snow Walker (1975); This Rock within the Sea (1976); Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages (1973); Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey / Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa (1987); Wake of the Great Sealers (1973); Walking on the Land (2000).

Movies and television:

30 Years on the Frontline (2008); 90 Minutes Live (1976); A Whale for the Killing (1981); Angus (1971); Canada Remembers - Part Three: Endings and Beginnings (1995); Canada Remembers - Part Two: The Liberators (1995); Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson (2011); Finding Farley (2009); Floating After Farley (2022–2023); Life and Times (1997); Lost in the Barrens II: The Curse of the Viking Grave (1992); Magic Hour: Lost in the Barrens (1990); Make the Movie Live the Movie (2004); Never Cry Wolf (1983); Ocean Warrior (1981); Pirate for the Sea (2008); Telescope (1964); Telescope (1966–1970); Ten Days to Victory (2005); Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat (1981); The New North with Farley Mowat (1987); The Snow Walker (2003); View from the Typewriter (1993).