Daniel and Seth are backwoods boys, fascinated and challenged by the swamps, rivers, and mountains of their remote northern valley and by the wildlife they see there. These evocative survival stories describe three trips the boys make, alone and together: a snowshoe trek, a swamp exploration, and an October night alone in the woods.

David Budbill writes simply and beautifully about the exhilaration of striking out into the wilderness. He captures the sense of mystery, awe, and sometimes fear that nature evokes in each of us.

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SNOWSHOE TREK TO OTTER RIVER

a Kirkus Choice for 1976

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nominated for the 1977-78

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award

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Three spare and truthful outdoor adventures, all memorable for their noticing attention to detail and the marvelous absence of melodramatic complications....They leave you feeling euphoric. "loose in your bones."

Powerful short stories...fast paced adventures...never faltering into the sentimental.

With clean, simple sentences the author captures the lure of the wilderness and the beauty of animals in their own environment.

These three short stories could serve as models of the genre.

SNOWSHOE TREK TO OTTER RIVER

first published by The Dial Press, New York, 1976

subsequently in paperback

by Bantam/Skylark Editions

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Almost 100,000 copies sold

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