By:
Farley Mowat
Grade Level:
Farley Mowat’s autobiographical account of his two and one-half years researching Arctic Wolves is the premise for his novel, Never Cry Wolf (1963). As an amateur biologist for the Canadian government, he is assigned the task of documenting the lives of the “Wolf-caribou-predator-prey relationship” (Lucas, 1976, p. 20), and in doing so, he learns that “The wolf in fact is very different from the wolf of legend” (Kenney, 1963, p. 11).