Guts: True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books

Now I was falling, and falling fast, toward a wilderness I was unprepared to deal with; I had the wrong clothes, no weapon, no survival gear except a sleeping bag and the plane’s emergency kit.... Gary Paulsen has witnessed plane crashes, seen heart attack victims as an emergency ambulance volunteer, and hunted on his own since he was a boy. Here he connects these experiences to those of the characters in some of his best-known books.