![]() ![]() Though unsuccessful, his curiosity about animal life compelled him to pursue a college education in biology. ![]() The author traces his curiosity in naturalism to an event in his youth when he tried to preserve three hardy catfish overnight in the bowl of his grandmother’s toilet. In the 1993 Preface, written 30 years after the book’s initial release, Farley expresses concern that the Canadian government, at the behest of special interest groups, continues to allow the hunting of wolves, many species of which have already become extinct. In Chapter 23, Farley graphically describes a trapped group of 23 caribou slaughtered by hunters from an airplane. In this study guide, the proper name of these people, “Inuit,” is used. ![]() Content Warnings: Farley uses the mid-20th-century term “Eskimo,” to refer to Indigenous Canadians and other Indigenous peoples of the farthest northern reaches of North America. ![]()
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