Guts
The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books

There seems to be a river of rage just below the surface in moose that has no basis in logic, or at least any logic that I can see. this is a great sentence. and a great story that inspires this quote. montambo told me to read this, so i did. it is filling the "nonfiction" slot in my 10-work annotate......more

Due to widespread clamor among his fans to hear the true stories of how Gary Paulsen gained the intimate knowledge of wilderness survival he wrote about to such convincing effect in Hatchet and the other Brian's Saga novels, the author released Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunti......more

Gary Paulsen is one of the authors who made me a reader. I hated reading when I was a kid, but I loved the woods. I liked survival stories and learning about nature. Hatchet was one of the few books that I actually enjoyed. After reading Hatchet a few dozen times, I moved on to the rest of Gary Paul......more

I have met Gary Paulsen and love his books. Guts was entertaining, serious, and filled with information about wilderness survival that I simply did not know. A few times, this book made me laugh out load!......more

Gary Paulsen shares countless stories of hunting, fishing, dogsled racing, and other adventures that inspired him to write Hatchet and other books. Incredible to read about his own life experience, but some of it was nasty and graphic. Fine read.......more