|
| Lost in the Barrens | 
| Author: Farley Mowat
Publisher: Starfire
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
Buy Used: $0.06
You Save: $5.93 (99%)
New (25) Collectible (1) from $2.20
Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 67585
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0553275259
EAN: 9780553275254
ASIN: 0553275259
Publication Date: March 1, 1985
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, best prices.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Great Adventure Tale July 16, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an exciting tale of two boys, Jamie and Awasin, who become lost in the wilderness after their canoe is overturned. Survival would be difficult for grown men, but the boys work together and form a bond that will never be broken. Mowat always laces his fiction with fact, which further enhances the power of his story telling. A great adventure tale for young readers and adults.
Chrissy K. McVay - Author
A thrilling book of outdoor adventure March 11, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you love the north country and the outdoors, and haven't read this book yet, you have a great adventure coming! It doesn't really matter if you are very young or very old, you can enjoy this book because it is so well written. I first read this book as a ten-year-old girl, and loved it. I still re-read it as a middle-aged woman, and I still love it! Every time I read this, I want to escape to Canada to go hiking and canoeing (and often I do). The details of outdoor survival are all authentic. The adventure aspects are as thrilling as anything I have ever read. There are lessons to this story, and they aren't shallow. These boys make some mistakes, take their knocks, and learn lessons that make them into real, responsible men. A great aspect of this book is that the moral is not to avoid mistakes, but to do what has to be done once the mistakes are made, and grow by making them. The two Indian tribes, the Eskimos, and the white people all have their own fears of "foreign" people and their territories. The boys encounter their fear of the unknown, physical danger, and of unknown people and surmount them by being steadfast. The sequel to this book, The Curse of the Viking Grave is also really good. If you enjoyed reading this book you might also enjoy "The Old Man and the Boy" by Robert Ruark.
Rediscovering a childhood favorite... February 9, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just lately, I've been introducing my two kids to my favorite childhood books (we're nearing the end of "My Side of the Mountain" now); they're so enamored, I've promised to read them "Lost in the Barrens" next. That's what brought me to Amazon tonight -- and I was pleasantly surprised to find that so many others have the same great childhood memories of this book.
Like a number of other reviewers here, I first read this book under the alternate title, "Two Against the North" in a Scholastic Books edition in the mid-70s. I read it so many times I literally lost count -- certainly forty or fifty cover-to-cover readings. Mowat created a rich, engrossing world with believable characters and sweeping events, and I just loved the adventurous and edgy tale. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who likes a good survival story.
A book that presents the far north as it really is October 31, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Again, Farley Mowat demonstrates that which makes him clearly on of Canada's greatest treasures.
A fictional book, it nevertheless portrays the beautiful tundra of the north. Anyone reading it will be carried by the story but will learn of the beauty of the Barrens, despite its unforgiving brutality.
A book I have read many times and never cease to be impressed by the true beauty of the North!
One of my all-time favorites January 28, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I,too, ordered this book from the Arrow Book Club in the early '60s under the name Two Against the North. I must have read it dozens of times and was thrilled to find it in the library under the title Lost in the Barrens for my children to read. Those of you who have loved it need to read Mowat's latest book, One Man's River. In it he describes a harrowing journey he took in 1947 and I kept feeling echoes from the earlier book. The tale he tells in the recent book must have been the inspiration for the novel. I'm so glad that Lost in the Barrens is back in print and I hope that the current generation will enjoy it as much as I did.
|
|
|
Wildlife, nature and the Environment
Sponsored Links
Learn how to get your own Amazon Book shop | |
