![]() ![]() Bird-banding expeditions, overnight outings in the dead of winter, sleeping in haystacks for survival, were regular activities. He was a registered ornithologist by the tender age of fourteen. Farley's youth was charmed and hilarious, and he was unbelievably free in his access to unspoiled nature. ![]() ![]() The book is centered on the years 1933-1937, beginning with the Mowat family's move west from Ontario to Saskatoon and ending with their return to Ontario. The young Farley soon struck up a devoted friendship with "the Others" - the birds and beasts, the owls and snakes with whom he found a companionship that he could never attain with his own kind - and encountered a boyhood paradise. Farley Mowat's books have the singular property of combining the readability of personal memoirs with an intense consciousness of the natural world, Born Naked, Mowat's first book of straightforward autobiography, recounts in sprightly terms a boyhood spent in the woods of Ontario, on the plains of Saskatchewan, at the beaches of British Columbia, and on the tundra around Hudson Bay. ![]()
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