Sam Gribley, a young man from New York, yearns to live without anyone else on his extraordinary granddad's property in the Catskill Mountains. He hangs out in the forested areas for a whole year, eating nourishment he finds in the wilds, fabricating his own particular safe house inside a tree, tanning the deerskin for his dresses, adapting to snow and ice storms, and sidestepping the interest of untouchables. This is a persuading story, complete with nitty gritty directions for an expansive assortment of ingrained instincts, for example, beginning a flame without matches, making salt, bubbling water in a leaf, and protecting
