Canoes to Canada, makes shack, lives off the land
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FROM: "Yelk, Heidi" <[removed]@courts.state.wi.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 4:06 PM
I had a conversation last night with a man who wants to find a book he
read as a child. It was about 40 years ago, and the book was not new
then, he thinks it may have been written in the 30s. It is about a man
who canoes to a remote island in Canada and builds a shack out of twigs
and brush etc and lives off the land. The book was about 150-200 pages
(he thinks) and he read it as a 7th grader.
Thank you!
Heidi A. Yelk
Reference/Electronic Services Librarian
Wisconsin State Law Library
One East Main St.
Madison WI 53703
608/261-7555
[removed]@courts.state.wi.us
FROM: "Joy Tofteland" <[removed]@ankeny.k12.ia.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 4:49 PM
Awasin and Jamie, brothers in courage, meet a challenge many mountain men
could not endure. When their canoe is destroyed by the fury of the rapids,
they must face the wilderness with no food and no hope of rescue. To
survive, they build an igloo, battle a towering grizzly bear, track several
wolves, slaughter caribou for food and clothing. Two lost huskies they tame
bring companionship--and maybe a way home from their dangerous adventure.
Title: Lost in the Barrens /
Author(s): Mowat, Farley. ; Geer, Charles, ; ill.
Publication: Boston : Joy Street Books,
Year: 1956
Description: 244 p. : p., ill. ;, 21 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0316586382; LCCN: 56-5628
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Survival -- Fiction.
Geographic: Canada -- Fiction.
Class Descrpt: Dewey: F
Responsibility: by Farley Mowat ; with drawings by Charles Geer.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 19910718
Update: 19950429
Accession No: OCLC: 24094716
Joy Tofteland
Reference/Technical Resources Librarian
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA
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> I had a conversation last night with a man who wants to find a book he
> read as a child. It was about 40 years ago, and the book was not new
> then, he thinks it may have been written in the 30s. It is about a man
> who canoes to a remote island in Canada and builds a shack out of twigs
> and brush etc and lives off the land. The book was about 150-200 pages
> (he thinks) and he read it as a 7th grader.
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Heidi A. Yelk
> Reference/Electronic Services Librarian
> Wisconsin State Law Library
> One East Main St.
> Madison WI 53703
> 608/261-7555
> [removed]@courts.state.wi.us
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