"He'd been in the bush and survived with only a hatchet because he'd begun to try to learn about things that happened to him; basic things, even idiotic things. You eat the gut berries, you throw up. Don't eat the gut berries." (Chapter 2, p. 10).

"He ate the meat from that, the broke the head open and ate the brain and eyes (he had long ago stopped being picky or squeamish), put the bones and carcass back in the lake where the panfish could get at it and set to his gear." (Chapter 3, p. 21).

"And then she turned and Brian saw the shiny spot better and realized that the dog had been wounded in some way, perhaps in a fight, and there was a slash that started just at the top of her right shoulder and went down and back at an angle almost to her rear end." Chapter...