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* Flicker Tale Children's Book Award
* Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award


작가인 Gary Paulsen의 뉴베리 수상작인 Hatchet에 이은 또 하나의 생존기. 재미와 스릴, 감동을 함께 주는 베스트렐러책입니다.

전작인 Hatchet에서 손도끼 하나의 의존하여 광활한 캐나다의 원시림 지역에서 54일 동안 살아남은 브라이언은 정부로 부터 그때의 생존상황을 재연해 달라는 부탁을 받습니다. 미국 정부는 브라이언의 생존 방식을 통해 우주조종사나 군인들이 유사한 상황에서 생존할 수 있는 방법을 배우고 싶어했지요.

이번에는 브라이언 혼자서가 아니라 데릭이라는 심리학자가 동행하면서 브라이언의 생존방법을 기록하기로 했습니다. 하지만 폭풍우가 몰아치는 동안 데릭은 번개에 맞아 혼수상태가 되고, 설상가상으로 무전기마저 고장나면서 브라이언과 데릭은 수백킬로미터 안에 사람의 흔적이라고는 없는 대자연 속에 고립되는 상황을 맞게 됩니다. 혼수상태인 데릭을 데리고 브라이언이 살아날 수 있는 유일한 방법은 뗏목을 만들어서 강을 타고 약 160km를 내려가면 나타나는 조그만 마을에 가는 것입니다만...






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Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 132 pages
ISBN-10: 0440407532
ISBN-13: 978-0440407539
책 크기: 19.3 cm x 13.2 cm



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Book Description
"We want you to do it again." These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change his life. Two years earlier, Brian was stranded alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days with nothing but a small hatchet. Yet he survived. Now the government wants him to do it again--to go back into the wilderness so that astronauts and the military can learn the survival techniques that kept Brian alive.
This time he won't be alone: Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him to observe and take notes. But during a freak storm, Derek is hit by lightning and falls into a coma. Their radio transmitter is dead. Brian is afraid that derek will die of dehydration unless he can get him to a doctor. His only hope is to build a raft and try to transport Derek a hundred miles down the river to a trading post--if the map he has is accurate.


Publishers Weekly
In a boxed review, PW praised the "terse, heart-stopping prose" of this follow-up to Hatchet : "The new adventure is as riveting as its predecessor . . . the psychological terrain of the sequel is fresh and distinct."


Kirkus Reviews
A sequel to the most popular of Paulsen's three Newbery Honor books (Hatchet, 1987), based on an unlikely premise-- government researchers want Brian to reenact his northwoods survival so that his strategies can be observed and taught to others. Derek, a young psychologist, and Brian are dropped off at another Canadian lake, near the first one, equipped only with knives and a radio that Derek has promised not to use except in a dire emergency. Everything goes all too smoothly until their camp is struck by lightning, zapping the radio and leaving Derek in a coma. Brian manages to float Derek 100 miles down a river to a trading post, thus saving his life. The lyrically described details of Brian's adventure-- building a fire, making a raft--are of most interest here; for all its graphically evoked perils (rapids, the craft's unwieldiness, exhaustion), the journey's successful outcome seems less in doubt than did the outcome of the compelling autobiographical wilderness experiences described in Woodsong (1990). In Hatchet, Brian discovered his own strength, adding depth, complexity, and tension to the story; here, that strength is a given--as he himself points out. Perfunctory in design but vividly written, a book that will, as intended, please the readers who hoped that Paulsen, like Brian, would ``do it again.''