Author: Gary Paulsen was born May 17, 1939 in Minnesota. During the first few years of his life, he was raised by several relatives, because his father was stationed in Europe during the Second World War. His mother worked in a factory and he ran away from home at the age of 14 and travelled around with a carnival, where he learned much about life. After that period he moved back to Minnesota where he turned to the …showed first 75 words of 1770 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1770 total…beef and potato dinner, with orange drink and peach whip for dessert. And as he cooks it suddenly something happens, that he doesn't believe to happen anymore. Reading Excerpt (149 - 150) My opinion: That is the end of the book and in my opinion it was great to read and I liked it very much. It's never uninteresting and it shows so many things which films and other stories about survival in the wilderness don't show.