When I was about 13 or so, my father introduced me to a book that forever changed my outlook on how I approach the outdoors. My Side of the Mountain is a book about a young man who runs away from home and literally learns to live off the land and survive in the wild. He creates a home and tames a hawk to be his eyes in the sky; he learns to hunt big game by himself. From his life in the woods, he learns more about himself and his limits than he ever could have in society.
I love this book much more than any other book I've ever read. My father told me he learned things from this book that helped him in his survival skills in the Marine Corps, and in turn it has helped me in my camping excursions. To survive based on your own skill is a greater accomplishment than any other one would face in their life; this book, although fictional, will attest to such a statement.
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