Cry Of The Wild

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To hear Bill Mason tell about the making of this feature film (he is also the narrator) is to share with him his affection for his camera-quarry: the big northern timber wolves & pure-white Arctic wolves. What he brings to the screen is some unexcelled film footage & a great depth of lore about these wary intelligent creatures of the Canadian wilds. Filming was done over three years in the Northwest Territories British Columbia the high Arctic & near his Gatineau Hills Quebec home where he kept & observed three grown wolves & eventually the litter of cubs that provides some of the films most engaging sequences. ; ; Bill Mason was an award-winning naturalist author artist filmmaker & conservationist noted primarily for his popular canoeing books films & art. He was born in 1929 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada & graduated from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1951. He developed & refined canoeing strokes & river-running techniques especially for complex whitewater situations. He canoed all of his adult life ranging widely over the wilderness areas of Canada & the United States. Called "wilderness artist " in one book about him Mason left a legacy that

Includes:: books films & artwork on canoeing & wild nature. He died of cancer in 1988.