trapper
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in the Canadian Yukon. In 2009 Vanier's movie ' ("Wolf") detailed the life of the
Evens
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tribe in
Siberia
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,
Verkhoyansk
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mountain range, who lived by raising large herds of
reindeer
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which they protected from attacking wolves.
In 2019, Nicolas Vanier's project ''
Spread Your Wings
"Spread Your Wings" is a power ballad by British rock band Queen, from their 1977 album ''News of the World''.France Nature Environnement formally complained that Nicolas Vanier's film crew had disturbed a colony of Greater Flamingos by repeatedly flying overhead in an
ultralight
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and causing an estimated 11% of the French breeding population to abandon its nests and eggs. Vanier later agreed to end his filmmaking and transfer the movie's location to
Norway
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.
Filmography
*''Les coureurs de bois'' (1982)
*''Au nord de l'hiver'' (1991)
*''L'enfant des neiges'' (1995)
*''Un hiver de chien'' (1997)
*''L'Odyssée blanche'' (2000)
*'' The Last Trapper'' (2004)
*''L'Odyssée sibérienne'' (2006)
*' (2009)
*''
Belle et Sébastien
''Belle et Sébastien'' is a 1966 novel by Cécile Aubry about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Great Pyrenees, who live in a village in the French Alps close to the Italian border. Sébastien lives with his adopted gran ...
Spread Your Wings
"Spread Your Wings" is a power ballad by British rock band Queen, from their 1977 album ''News of the World''.Jack London
John Griffith London (; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t ...
'' (1997)
*''Destin nord'' (1998)
*''Territoire'' (1998)
*''Le grand brame'' (1998)
*''L'odyssée blanche'' (1999)
*''C'est encore loin l'Alaska'' (2000)
*''Le chant du grand nord'' (2002) - awarded the
Prix Maurice Genevoix
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It is intended to recognize a French literary work which, by its topic or style, honors the m ...
*''Le voyageur du froid'' (2003)
*''L'or sous la neige'' (2004)
*''L'Odyssée sibérienne'' (26 October 2006)
*''Album illustré par Philippe Mignon'' (2006)
*''Guide de l'aventurier'' (2006)