Eastern Passage

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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. It was a time of self-discovery, a formative period for him as a writer and activist. Mowat offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a writer's career and the events that shaped his work.

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"For admirers of Farley Mowat and we are legion this is a necessary work." Globe and Mail

"An insightful narrative that elucidates Mowat's past."Quill and Quire

"[Mowat's] celebrated style is in evidence from page one."Canadian Geographic

"Thoreau-esque at times. . . . The prose is effortless and entertaining."Telegraph-Journal

Author Bio

FARLEY MOWAT was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921. 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. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He remains an inveterate traveller with a passion for remote places and peoples. He has forty-two books to his name, which have been published in translations in over fifty languages in more than sixty countries. They include such internationally known works asPeople of the Deer, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, Never Cry Wolf, Westviking, The Boat That Wouldn't Float, Sibir,A Whale for the Killing, The Snow Walker, And No Birds Sang, andVirunga- The Passion of Dian Fossey.With sales of nearly 20 million copies worldwide, he is one of Canada's most successful writers.His short stories and articles have appeared inThe Saturday Evening Post,Maclean's,Atlantic Monthly,and other magazines. He died in 2014.