Boat Who Wouldn't Float

Farley Mowatwas born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill. 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 twenty-five books to his name, which have been published in translations in over twenty 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 Who Wouldn't Float,Sibir,A Whale for the Killing,The Snow Walker,And No Birds Sang, andVirunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey. His short stories and articles have appeared inThe Saturday Evening Post,Maclean's,Atlantic Monthlyand other magazines. From the Hardcover edition.Mowat, Farley is the author of 'Boat Who Wouldn't Float', published 1993 under ISBN 9780771066610 and ISBN 0771066619.