{"product_id":"high-latitudes-farley-mowat","title":"High Latitudes","description":"Farley Mowat has the Arctic in his blood, a map of every corner of the Far  North in his mind. It took hard work, endless travel, and countless conversations to  acquire such knowledge, and his education forms the heart of his lively, welcome  memoir, High Latitudes. In the mid-1960s, acting on a publisher's suggestion,  Mowat undertook an odyssey that, he writes, \"was to take me through much of the  enormous and mysterious realm lying north of the sixtieth parallel of latitude\"--a region  scarcely known to most of his compatriots, embracing the huge inland body of water that  Mowat refers to here as the Canadian Sea and taking in all of the Canadian Arctic. As he  travelled, crossing open water and great boreal forests, Mowat talked with everyone he  met, from Native people who taught him techniques for survival and joked that the  government relied on them \"to sustain the employment of scores of white administrators,  teachers, scientists, technicians, policemen, social workers, and the like\" to entrepreneurs  in whose eyes the region promised fortune no matter what the cost to the land. In  reporting those travels and conversations, Mowat is at once fierce and affectionate. This  is essential reading for those who would take up the Arctic's cause as their own, and a  pleasure for Mowat's many admirers. --Gregory McNamee\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farley Mowat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Key Porter Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2002\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Key Porter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45681353457855,"sku":"9781552634738","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/1060\/1663\/files\/view_archive_edd700c0-692d-43f6-b53f-043e1f1b528a.jpg?v=1780467555","url":"https:\/\/www.blendedbooknook.com\/products\/high-latitudes-farley-mowat","provider":"Blended Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}