Describes the author's boyhood on the Canadian prairies and his adventures with Mutt, a dog of indeterminate breed who displayed superior hunting skills.
Wol is a wonderful bird, who brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the postman, and the French teacher. Weeps is a comical bird, afraid of everything except Mutt, and he never does learn to fly.
Tyler, a young government biologist, is sent to observe an Arctic wolf pack with the objective of determining they are a menace to caribou herds, but he becomes disillusioned with society when he reaches an opposite conclusion.
Jamie McNair, an orphaned teen, has to leave his upper-class boarding school to live with an uncle in the wilderness in Manitoba, Canada, where he befriends a Cree Indian boy, and when the boys get lost in the wilderness, they must put aside their prejudice toward one another's culture in order to survive the brutal conditions.
Mowat and a partner spend $1,000 on a vessel to take them exotic places. Due to a variety of problems the boat took eight years to get off the coast of Newfoundland.
