<P> At the end of Hatchet, thirteen - year - old Brian Robeson, who has been trapped in the Canadian wilderness after a plane accident, decides to dive for a "survival pack" from the submerged aircraft . He almost drowns trying to tear the plane open . He recovers, among other things, an emergency transmitter . Within hours, a pilot receives the beacon and rescues him . The book begins with a foreword that Brian, who learned wilderness survival through trial and error, probably would not have survived the upcoming harsh winter on his own . </P> <P> Paulsen says that many readers wrote to him, complaining about the deus ex machina ending . In response, Paulsen wrote Brian's Winter, which explores what would have happened if Brian had not activated the transmitter . </P> <P> The story deals with Brian, still stranded at the L - shaped lake during the fall and winter, constructing a winter shelter, building snow shoes, being confronted by a bear, befriending and naming a skunk and learning how to make a bow more powerful . Eventually, Brian meets a family of Cree trappers, the Smallhorns, who help him return home . </P> <P> Brian's Winter is followed chronologically by the two sequels, Brian's Return and Brian's Hunt as they recognize the book as a series canon . The River does not and includes no mention that the events of Brian's Winter ever took place as Brian tells Derek Holtzer that he only spent fifty - four days in the wilderness . This is because The River was published in 1991, five years before the release of Brian's Winter . </P>

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