tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post8158465245528322916..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Another Great Pretender - Grey Owl Catherine JohnsonMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-39537715922031709552016-01-20T06:32:04.859+00:002016-01-20T06:32:04.859+00:00Thanks for your comments. Ann I read that the Atte...Thanks for your comments. Ann I read that the Attenborough brothers David and Richard saw one of his lectures and that's how David got into nature conservation and why richard made the film. Although I wasn't sure about the dates. I just think how much front people must have or if they want to believe something so much....<br />Thanks for the kind words about Caraboo leslie, much appreciated.Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14610226884546830879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-61585197379761989572016-01-18T19:04:12.675+00:002016-01-18T19:04:12.675+00:00Fascinating! As for his way of living his life'...Fascinating! As for his way of living his life' I have no comment/judgement to make. I think when these things come out there is always a lot of ugly abuse of the person concerned. I did love Caraboo, by the way - and she was a totally convincing and sympathetic character.Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-68610112907498201372016-01-14T20:57:30.793+00:002016-01-14T20:57:30.793+00:00I remember finding some of his books in the librar...I remember finding some of his books in the library at Bexleyheath when I was a child. They were all about his life in the Canadian wilderness, and about animals, and I remember there was something about Anahareo too; and they were illustrated throughout with beautiful drawings. I loved those books. They were so romantic and yet down-to-earth - presumably because he really was a trapper and woodsman even if he wasn't who he said he was. And I loved his name 'Grey Owl'. I did learn the truth about him many years later, as an adult, and was surprised. But I still remember how much I loved his books.Ann Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484265041343702129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-64994946153648678732016-01-14T20:51:35.030+00:002016-01-14T20:51:35.030+00:00Yes, he does look rather Native American, doesn...Yes, he does look rather Native American, doesn't he? But you never know about these things, we've had a number of Indigenous Australians at my school who don't look remotely like what they are. Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-56149345754165672082016-01-14T08:22:54.706+00:002016-01-14T08:22:54.706+00:00What interesting stories, Catherine and Sue! Grey ...What interesting stories, Catherine and Sue! Grey Owl certainly looks like what he purported to be. I wonder, were his parents just ordinary English? It must certainly have taken some guts to leave Hastings and go off into the Canadian outback as a teenager.Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-6858788835949103762016-01-14T06:40:36.518+00:002016-01-14T06:40:36.518+00:00People want to believe what sounds romantic. There...People want to believe what sounds romantic. There's an Australian connection to the Tichborne Claimant, who would never have gotten away with it as far as he did if the dead man's mother hadn't wanted to believe, despite the fact that he looked nothing like the man he was pretending to be. And we've had literary pretenders, such as the one who, some years ago, won a major Australian prize for literature while pretending it was a history of her Ukrainian family's wartime experiences disguised as fiction(her family was British and had never had any of the experiences she wrote about). She had plenty of defenders even after the truth came out - and others, journalists who had thought she was the greatest thing since sliced bread, who now declared that they had never liked her. She was also accused of plagiarism - then did it again. Romance! Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com