Brian is introduced as the main character. He is a young city boy with divorced parents. He gets stuck in the Canadian northern wilderness.
Brian got in a plane and eventually the pilot had a heart attack the pilot died so he kept on driving until the plane ran out of gas and crashed in a lake and managed to pull out.
He found a shelter then found berries for food and ate to many berries and threw up then a porcupine attaked him and he found better berries than encountered a bear he ran away and made a fire and some spears to get fish and then made a bow with his shoe lase and got a fish snuck up on a bird and killed that with his spear and than made a fish trap and caught a lot of fish than a moose attaked him and he broke his ribs.
He woke up in his shelter in the middle of the night and heard a loud noise and it turned out it was a tornado it hit him and made him start all over again but he still had some left overs of his old materials.
After the tornado popped the tail of the plane up and he made a raft and was able to get to the plane and get a survival kit from it and it had a bunch of stuff including a emergency transmitter and a guy came and took him home.
He goes home and becomes famous also the book was character vs wilderness.