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Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only passenger on a small plane to his father's oil site in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot dies of a heart attack, and after the crash he has nothing to survive with but a hatchet.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana, a young Native American girl, is left behind when her people abandon their island off the California coast, and survives alone there for years, in a novel based on the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island.
The River
Two college friends paddle a remote Canadian river, and what begins as adventure becomes a fight for survival when they encounter a threat.
White Fang
A wolf-dog born in the Yukon is broken by men and taught the ways of their cruelty, then slowly, by one man, taught that there is a way to be loved and to survive both.
Heartwood
Valerie Gillis, a forty-two-year-old hiker known on the trail as Sparrow, disappears on a dangerous stretch of the Appalachian Trail in Maine, and Lieutenant Beverly Miller of the Maine Warden Service leads the search, while an old woman in a care home follows it online.
The Call of the Wild
A pampered California house dog is stolen and shipped north to pull a Klondike sled, and civilisation is sanded off him, team by team, until the forest is his name.
Into the Wild
In 1992 Chris McCandless, a gifted young college graduate, gave away his savings, walked into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land and was found dead months later, and Jon Krakauer reconstructs why.
Robinson Crusoe
A shipwrecked sailor survives alone for twenty-eight years on an island off South America, building a life from what he can salvage and turning survival into a colonial project.
The Vaster Wilds
A colonial-era woman flees into the Virginia wilderness and must survive alone, carrying the weight of everything she's running from.
In Desert and Wilderness
During the Mahdist uprising in Sudan, fourteen-year-old Staś Tarkowski and eight-year-old Nel Rawlison are kidnapped from Egypt and carried south, then escape into the African interior on their own.
Captains Courageous
Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American railroad millionaire, falls overboard from a liner and is fished out by a Gloucester cod schooner whose captain won't turn back for months.
Burn
Two old friends come out of their annual hunting trip in the Maine woods to find the country convulsed by armed secessionist violence, and have to make their way home through it.
The Great Alone
In 1974, Ernt Allbright, a former prisoner of war who came home from Vietnam a volatile man, moves his wife Cora and thirteen-year-old daughter Leni to a remote corner of Alaska, where the first summer is golden and the winter that follows tests everything.