In High Latitudes, Farley Mowat chronicles for the first time thehazardous journey he took across northern Canada in 1966. Hehoped to write a book that would let northern people speak forthemselves and that would expose the speciousness of the politicalidea that the North was a bloody great wasteland with no peoplein it, and therefore resource developers could exploit it howeverthey chose. For reasons Mowat describes, that book did not getwritten then. But here it is now, with the original conversationsrecorded by Mowat during that epic journey.In vintage Mowat fashion, the legendary writer delivers a sweepingnarrative brimming with breathtaking nature writing, suspensefulstorytelling, larger-than-life characters, ferocious humor, pitiless rage, iconoclastic insights, and compassionate concern. Inher foreword, Margaret Atwood writes: High Latitudes gives us, with passion and insight, a vertical section of time past the timethat preceded our present. The choices that were made then affectour now, just as the choices we make now will determine thefuture.