Books like 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.
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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.
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.
Etna
Etna, a shepherd dog who served at the front of an unnamed present-day war, leaves the soldiers he has outlived and heads for the coastal farm where he grew up, crossing a ruined country full of animals and people starting over.
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.
The Yearling
Jody Baxter, a boy living with his parents on a hardscrabble farm in the Florida scrub in the 1870s, adopts an orphaned fawn and calls it Flag.
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.
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 Vaster Wilds
A colonial-era woman flees into the Virginia wilderness and must survive alone, carrying the weight of everything she's running from.
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.
Hondo
A cavalry dispatch rider finds a woman and her son alone on an Apache-threatened ranch and is drawn into their defence.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Edgar Sawtelle, born unable to speak, grows up on a farm in northern Wisconsin where his family breeds and trains a line of uncommonly gifted dogs, until his father's brother, Claude, comes home.