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And No Birds Sang (published in 1979, revised in 2012) is Canadian author Farley Mowat's autobiographical account of his military service as a junior Canadian infantry officer in the United Kingdom and Italy during World War II. The book describes Mowat's transformation from a young man hoping to share the perceived glory of his father's ...
Farley McGill Mowat, OC (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as People of the Deer (1952) and Never Cry Wolf (1963). [2]
Walter Farley (born Walter Lorimer Farley, 26 June 1915 – 16 October 1989) [1] was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children. His first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941), [ 2 ] the success of which led to many sequels over decades; the series has been continued since his death by his son Steven.
The Black Stallion is the name of a bestselling series of books by Walter Farley, and also the name of the first book in the series (from 1941), and the title character, an Arab stallion also known as the Black or Shêtân. The series chronicles the story of a Sheikh's prized stallion after a ship journey gone awry brings it into the possession ...
People of the Deer (published in 1952, revised in 1975) is Canadian author Farley Mowat's first book, and brought him literary recognition. The book is based upon a series of travels the author undertook in the Canadian barren lands, of the Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories (now the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, west of Hudson Bay.
Disaster follows him everywhere he goes, often making a spectacle of himself and setting a bad image to his family. Some of his best-known escapades in the series include throwing temper tantrums (most notably at the shoe store), finger-painting with mashed potatoes at a diner , scribbling all over Peter's transportation committee poster, and ...
Chris Farley is coming back to the big screen via a biopic about the late comedian’s life and career, our sister site Deadline reports. Paul Walter Hauser, whose work on Apple TV+’s Blackbird ...
The Radio Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Ralph Milne Farley. It is the first book in Farley's Radio Man series. The novel was originally serialized from the June 28, 1924 issue of Argosy. It was first published in book form in 1948 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,000 copies.