People of the Deer

People of the Deer

"People of the Deer" (published in 1952, revised in 1975) is Canadian author Farley Mowat's first book, which brought him literary recognition. The novel is based upon a series of travels the author undertook in the Barrens region, west of Hudson Bay, out of which the most important one was in the winter of '47-'48. During this period he studied the lives of the Ihalmiut, a small population of Inuit people, whose existence heavily relied on the very large population of caribou that lived there.

Besides fascinating descriptions of nature and life in the Arctic, Mowat's book tells us a sad story of how this people, once prosperous and wide spread, slowly degraded to the brink of extinction due to unscrupulous economic interest and lack of understanding.

References

* Mowat, Farley. "People of the Deer". Little, Brown and Co., 1952. ISBN 0786714786 [http://www.ecobooks.com/books/peopdeer.htm (excerpt; Table of Contents)]


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