RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Now, to the arctic tundra of Canada. Farley Mowat lived there researching wolves, and in 1963, he wrote "Never Cry Wolf," a memoir crediting with transforming the animal's image from savage killer to intelligent, noble animal. Farley Mowat died yesterday. He was 92, and in his long life he wrote 40 books pioneering an activist-style of environmental writing. Often, his focus was the landscape and people of northern Canada.</s>FARLEY MOWAT: It combines the best of wilderness and the least obnoxious of civilization.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Mowat was known to take factual liberties.</s>FARLEY MOWAT: I'm an instinctive man, a subjective man. I've tried to fulfill the function that is in me, which is that of the storyteller, and that's a good function.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Remembering storyteller Farley Mowat, who died yesterday. This is NPR News.
Farley Mowat wrote Never Cry Wolf. He was an ardent campaigner for environmental causes well into his later years.