Ernest Thompson Seton is a Canadian writer, animalist artist, one of the ideologists and inspirers of the scouting movement. The creator of the educational program "Life in nature the Indian way". It was thanks to Seton-Thompson that the American Scouting movement was greatly influenced by the culture of the American Indians.
His books about animals, such as "Heroic Animals", "Life of the Hunted", "Biography of a Grizzly", "Mustang Wanderer", as well as books about people living in nature, about hunters, children studying native nature ( "Rolf in the Woods", "Little Savages") had unprecedented success among young and adult readers.