Hatchet
A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet.
2,770-word summary · 12 min read
adventure + survival
5 books tagged both “adventure” and “survival”.
The Call of the Wild
Stolen pet Buck learns club and fang on the Klondike trail from Perrault to Thornton and the wolves.
2,489-word summary · 11 min read
The Death Cure
Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.
2,955-word summary · 13 min read
Watership Down
Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.
2,550-word summary · 11 min read
Life of Pi
Life of Pi retold: Pondicherry zoo, ship loss, Pi and Richard Parker in a boat, two stories.
1,936-word summary · 9 min read