Farley Mowat is the author of Never Cry Wolf, a personal memoir published in 1963. This memoir was written so he could chronicle his experiences in the Arctic with wolves. Farley Mowat wanted to be a naturalist, and the government gave him a job he couldn't refuse. He was supposed to go to the Arctic and collect data on caribou killing wolves. 400 miles north of Churchill, Canada, is where it ended up. He met a man named Mike who let him stay in his cabin next to a frozen lake. Mike's family were the only humans for thousands of square miles. After Farley Mowat began showing him sharp tools and diagrams on how to cut animals and people, Mike soon packed up and left. First, Farley found between four and five hundred caribou skeletons around the cabin, which Mike later says he must kill so his team of huskies can eat them. A lone husky quickly transforms into an adult wolf when Farley approaches him. The next time he sees the wolf there is another one with him, playing in the sand. Looking for them again the next day he finds that they had been 20 feet behind him the entire time. The lake finally thawed and flooded the cabin, so a tent was pitched just ten meters from a hunting trail. After the tent was pitched, a boundary was drawn and the wolves never crossed it. Farley discovered that wolves fed on mice much more than on caribou. When warm weather arrived, the wolves took their cubs to a summer den where they could run. One day he observed the wolves hunting and was furious when they did not attempt to attack any of the healthy deer. By observing carefully he realized that they usually only eat sick and weak deer. The government paid people up to twenty dollars to kill wolves. Leaving Farley Lake he went to Brochet Winter... middle of paper... healthy men were climbing into helicopters with high powered guns rounding up large groups of caribou and shooting them. The men would then take the racks they wanted and leave. Farley checked an incident about it and found that everything was true. People used caribou for their own amusement and games and slaughtered what keeps the tundra alive in the winter. Farley Mowat did a fantastic job describing her journey and her thoughts on what was going on. The decision to throw away the devices that would harm the wolves made the story so much brighter and more hopeful. I loved this book, there were many unexpected events that made my heart skip a beat, from him seeing the wolf for the first time to him almost falling into the summer den. He did such detailed work that it made you feel like you were actually there, right next to him, witnessing all the events that happened.