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The time: 1932, just before the repeal of Prohibition and just shy of Wild Bill's 14th birthday. The place: Vermont, near the Canadian border. Bill's dad, desperate to preserve his cattle herd through a bitter winter, resorts to smuggling whiskey--a traditional family occupation. He takes his son on a voyage that will remain etched in the reader's mind: a journey into the demonic and spellbinding past. What they find is the genuine stuff of legends....
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2023
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his realization...
5) Deep survival: who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2003
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1st ed.
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301 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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.."Applying the science of chaos theory and self-organizing systems, Gonzales shows how accidents are not random acts of God but highly organized outcomes of complex system... You can't stop them from happening, but this book can help prevent them from happening to you. The principles apply not only to survival in the wild, but to surviaval in relationships..."--Jacket.
6) Northwind
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2022.
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When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
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"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...
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Thunder'sMouth Press
Pub. Date
1999
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1st ed.
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354 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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An anthology of non-fiction and fiction stories that tell of survival in the wilderness, featuring fourteen selections by a variety of authors, including Edward Abbey, Jon Krakauer, Jack London, and others.
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Vision of shadows volume 1
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 1
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 1
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 1
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 1
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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First edition.
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296, 8 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"The warrior cat Clans have enjoyed many moons of peace and prosperity--but a dark season approaches, and those days will soon be over. Guided by a mysterious vision, the young apprentice Alderpaw of ThunderClan must go on a dangerous journey...a journey that may be the Clans' only hope." --
10) Brian's winter
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Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
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Distributed to the trade by Viking Press
Pub. Date
©1982
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1020 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers.
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The Borrowers volume 2
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1983
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238 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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English
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Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors. Nearly everything outside--cows, moths, field mice, cold weather--is a life-threatening danger for the tiny Borrowers. But as they bravely journey across country in search of a new home and learn how to survive in the wild, Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty, discover that the world...
13) Alabama moon
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
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294 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life.
14) The great alone
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"Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little...
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Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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English
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A fictionalized retelling of the true story of three-year-old Sarah Whitcher, who, in 1783, became lost in the woods of New Hampshire and was protected by a bear until her rescue four days later.
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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xii, 222 p. : ill, maps ; 18 cm.
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English
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Counteracting the panic and fear associated with getting lost in the wild, this handbook equips children with practical tools for overcoming adverse wilderness experiences, even if they are endured alone. Compiled by a search-and-rescue professional, straightforward advice is offered on building shelters and fires, signaling for help, finding water and food, dealing with dangerous animals, learning how to navigate, and avoiding injuries. Practice...
20) Abel's island
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1976
Edition
1st ed.
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117 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
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