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1980s: Imagine you’re lost in the Canadian wilderness with only a hatchet for company….
Hatchet
What you need to know before your trail
There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and the plane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam into the lake . . .
Brian is a city boy. Not used to living rough. Until his plane crash-lands in the Canadian wilderness. All he has is a hatchet – and a desperate will to survive. Now Brian must learn to live the hard way – or die.
Travel Guide
The Canadian Wilderness
There are many suggestions as to where this book is set given that the plane takes off from Hampton in New York and heads north or north west. The film version depicted the wilderness of the Yukon Territory so the pins have been placed there
“Brian was heading north. His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. He was working in the oil fields of Canada, up on the tree line where the tundera started and the forests ended.”
“There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal and the plane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down, to slam into the lake.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Hatchet
Author/Guide: Gary Paulsen Destination: Yukon Territory Departure Time: 1980s
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