Pilgrims of the Wild

Biographies & Memoirs

GREY OWL

Arts & Literature

Penguin??Books

The three most famous and influential works from the controversial legend and early conservationist. Grey Owl was born Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, the son of an aristocrat in Hastings, England, in 1888. Raised by his two aunts, he led a lonely childhood in England until 1906, when, at the tender age of seventeen, he emigrated to North America to live among the Native people. He returned to England a few years later to serve in the First World War, was wounded, and returned to live with the Ojibwe in northern Canada. In mid-life, Archibald Belaney adopted the Ojibwe name Wa-sha-quonasin, or Grey Owl. He married three times and fathered three children. He also lived for many years with an Ojibwe woman named Anahareo, and moved to northern Quebec, where he began his writing career in earnest. All of Grey Owl's stories are based on true-life experiences. As a canoeman, packer guide, fur trapper, naturalist and storyteller, Grey Owl's nature writings have delighted readers worldwide since they first began to appear in 1929, the same year that Grey Owl began to lecture as a conservationist. During the course of his career as a writer, Grey Owl's deep love and respect for nature came through in his body of work. Through his true tales of life lived in the wilderness, he helped to promote conservation awareness. Grey Owl contains three of his best-loved works. <ul> <li>The Men of the Last Frontier was Grey Owl's first book, published in 1931. In this collection of stories, Grey Owl, one of the early voices to sound an alarm for increased conservation, tells about his life on the trail, his indigenous friends and their animal companions.</li> <li>Pilgrims of the Wild was published in 1934. Primarily an animal story, it also tells of Grey Owl and Anahareo's struggle to emerge from the chaos that followed the failure of the fur trade and the breakdown of the old proprietary system of hunting grounds. This is a humble and moving collection that paints a beautiful picture of a quickly changing land.</li> <li>Sajo and the Beaver People was published in 1935. The "beaver people" are two beaver kittens rescued and adopted by an indigenous hunter. The kittens soon become the beloved pets of the entire village. Their adventures and eventual reunion with their parents make this one of the most touching and irresistible stories in Grey Owl's body of work.</li> </ul> The man that was Grey Owl will be fondly remembered as both a mystery and a legend. His love of nature and the wilderness, and his stories of life as a guide have become part of the canon of nature writing.

Grey Owl: Three Complete Works

Children's Books

Firefly Books

First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl’s autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to protect the environment and the endangered beaver. Powerful in its simplicity, Pilgrims of the Wild tells the story of Grey Owl’s life of happy cohabitation with the wild creatures of nature and the healing powers of what he referred to as "the great Northland" of "Over the Hills and Far Away." A bestseller at the time, Pilgrims of the Wild helped establish Grey Owl’s international reputation as a conservationist. His legacy of warnings against the degradations of nature and the dangers of industry live on, despite the posthumous revelation that he wasn’t, in fact, the First Nations man he claimed to be.

Pilgrims of the wild

Science & Math

Environment

P. Davies

Scribner

Sajo and the Beaver People

The adventures of two young beavers after they are rescued by an Indian hunter and taken to his village.

From the back cover: "Many readers have come to regard Tales of an Empty cabin as Grey Owl's greatest book. It tells the epic story of the vast North Land, of the men-both Indian and white-who have given it its history, of the animals that live and have their being in it, and of the trees and rivers which are its sentinels and highways. The ghostly firelight in the empty cabin brings back to Grey Owl's mind "some half-forgotten story of an incident or thought, and by them there nearly always hung a tale." There are stories of the struggle and endurance of the Indians, and of the beavers and wolves, and of the hugebull moose who became a frequent visitor to Grey Owl's camp. Grey Owl's masterful tales of the Canadian wilderness have won the admirationof the readers in many lands all over the world, and the increasing awareness of the dangers to our natural environment has created a new generation of readers for these unique and powerful stories.

Tales Of An Empty Cabin

History

Americas

Macmillan of Canada

From the back cover: "Grey Owl, an Englishman born and bred, lived like an Indian in Canada with his wife Anahareo, writing of the animals and of the Indians he came to love as his own. In this book, Grey Owl, or Archie Belaney, describes the change from the life of a trapper to that of a conservationist. With Anahareo, in Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan, he came to know more of 'the beaver people' than he ever had before, and to act as their protector and friend. If for no other reason, Grey Owl deserves to be remembered as a prophet of conservation."

Historical

Macmillan Co. of Canada

Macmillan

Sajo and the beaver people (Laurentian library ; 55)

Pilgrims of the wild (Laurentian library)

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