Chapters 1 and 2 Summary

As the story opens, Brian is "in his world again." The season is late summer and fall will soon arrive. He is traveling in a canoe with more supplies than he'd had during his previous months in the wilderness. He has some food, including beans and rice along with salt and pepper. He has discovered that he likes tea and has tea and sugar. He also has some items to make his life easier, including a cook set. The items he considers a real luxury are the matches and each time he uses one to make a fire, he remembers his first time alone in the wilderness. He also dreams about how that first time in the wilderness came to be. He'd been the only passenger in a small plane and the pilot had died of a heart attack. The plane...