Books like 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.
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Hatchet
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.
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.
Isola
Based on the life of Marguerite de la Rocque, a French orphan whose guardian sails her to New France in the 1540s and abandons her on an island off Canada with her lover and her nurse when he discovers the affair.
Gap Creek
Julie Harmon, seventeen and used to doing a man's work on her family's farm, marries Hank Richards in the 1890s and moves with him to a house on Gap Creek, across the state line in South Carolina.
Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
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.
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.
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.
News of the World
An ageing itinerant newsreader agrees to transport a young girl, rescued from the Kiowa, across the Texas frontier to her relatives.
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.
Swallows and Amazons
The four Walker children, on holiday on a farm by a lake in the North of England, are allowed to sail their dinghy Swallow to an island and camp there, where they meet the Blackett sisters, pirates of the Amazon.
The Wall
A woman in an Alpine hunting lodge wakes to find the outside world apparently frozen behind an invisible wall and settles into writing the account of her survival.