Can you imagine the spectacular sight of herds of reindeer rolling like a torrent in front of you? When the train goes all the way north, into the endless plains; When the rolling river rushes, it stretches like a ribbon; Witnessing herds of reindeer moving as they move and become a majestic sight on the ground will surely be unforgettable.
The author of the book "The People of the Deer", Canada's national treasure writer Farley Moat, had such an unforgettable experience. His own witnesses in his youth made him maintain a deep yearning for the Arctic no matter how time passed.
Farley Moat later traveled to the Arctic alone and flew over the vast barren plains to the legendary Lake Nuertin. When he first set foot on this land, he encountered the same scene as in Robinson Crusoe, such as one morning when he woke up and found that he was being watched by more than 60 grouse, and the scene was very strange.
After more than a week of waiting, Farley Moat finally waited for the owner of the temporary shack, lived here alone with his brother Hans, and adopted Franz with 2 Ihamit children.
The story slowly unfolds, and Franz's life is like a melting glacier, flowing into a choppy river. Franz is not a primitive Ihamite, he is more like an outsider who has intruded into this land, carrying both the mark of civilization and a primitive atmosphere.
Franz's father, Carl, came to Lake Nuerting with his wife and children for work reasons, and later left the land for work reasons. His seven children did not leave, staying behind to become part of Lake Nuertin. They grew up here, have learned to make ends meet like the Inuit, and everything in the wilderness has become a happy memory of their childhood.
Franz seems to have become one of the Ihamites, but that's just as if. At one point, he was on the brink of contradiction, trying to refuse to blend into the wasteland until the food shortage quietly descended on Lake Nuertin.
It was so cold that winter that many border trade posts in Lake Nuerting were removed and reindeer left the land. And the Ihamits, who have already exchanged the skills to make ends meet, have become the victims of all this. Franz, who witnessed all this, grew up overnight, but in the end he left the wasteland.
The Ihamites, who had nowhere to run, could not choose to leave like Franz, and as the reindeer population plummeted, it became a difficult question for them to go. Farley Moat's non-fiction literature written with his own eyes and ears, there is reflection and compassion between the lines, and after reading it, it is deeply shocking, and I can't help but hide the deep thought.