Bari, chien-loup by James Oliver Curwood
"Bari, chien-loup" by James Oliver Curwood is a wilderness adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Bari, a wolf-dog born to the blind she-wolf Louve-Grise and the dog Kazan, as he grows into the northern wilds, pulled between his wolf instincts and his dog nature. Encounters with predators, prey, storms, and humans shape a survival tale about identity, trust, and the thin line between the wild and the tame.
The opening of the novel traces Bari from birth in a fallen tree, through his first sunlight and moonlit nights, to early lessons in killing when Kazan brings a rabbit. A reckless tussle with a young owl sends him tumbling into a river; lost and terrified, he endures a thunderstorm, witnesses bear and moose at close range, and nearly starves crossing a burned forest before stealing a freshly killed grouse from an ermine. Regaining strength by catching young rabbits, he wanders into a trapline where the Métis trapper Pierre and his daughter Nepeese appear; Nepeese wounds him with a shot, but he hides and escapes. Nursed by anger and instinct, he later battles an old great owl and wins, gaining confidence as he limps on into the northern night, still a solitary wanderer. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Curwood, James Oliver, 1878-1927 |
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| Translator | Bocquet, Léon, 1876-1954 |
| Uniform Title | Baree, son of Kazan. French |
| Title | Bari, chien-loup |
| Original Publication | Paris: Georges Crès et Cie, 1925. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baree,_Son_of_Kazan |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Dogs -- Fiction |
| Subject | Western stories |
| Subject | Wolves -- Fiction |
| Subject | Nature stories |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76782 |
| Release Date | Aug 31, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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