Farley was a decorated World War II veteran who rose to the rank of captain in the military. Why does he portray himself in the book as an innocent bumbling man rather than a hardened world traveler?

Before Farley sets out for the wilderness to live among the wolves, he interviews citizens of Churchill, all of whom express that they are lupine experts. The information they give him turns out to be ludicrous and useless. How could people living in civilization’s closet outpost to wolf country be so ignorant of actual wolf knowledge?

What three distinct expressions of Canadian civilization are present in Ootek, Mike, and Farley?