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"Mowat advances a controversial new theory that another Indo-European people he calls the "Alban" preceded the Norse by several centuries. Throughout The Farfarers, Mowat skillfully weaves fictional vignettes of Alban life into his thoughtful reconstruction of a forgotten history."--Back cover.
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Grave, cool, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Farley Mowat
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 377
- Publisher
- Steerforth, Key Porter Books, Steerforth Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385659260
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“I SPENT MOST OF THE SUMMER OF 1966 VISITING native communities across the Canadian Arctic from the north tip of Labrador to the Alaskan border.”
Farley McGill Mowat (1921-2014) was born in Belleville, Ontario. The author of more than forty books, he was a popular and distinguished naturalist and conservationist whose internationally acclaimed novels, books for young readers, and memoirs have been translated into fifty-two languages and have sold more than seventeen million copies.
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