Wild Man Island

About this book

The land was slipping away the wind was howling and I was in a world of trouble. 0n the last day of a sea kayak trip in southeast Alaska fourteen-year-old Andy Galloway paddles away from the group. Hes on a mission of the heart. His father an archeologist died only a few miles away. A sudden gale propels Andy across the strait. He swims ashore freezing and barefoot onto Admiralty Island an immense wilderness of forests rain and bears. When hope of rescue fades Andy starts walking. Starvation leads him further into the wild and into danger. He encounters a dog running with wolves and later a man dressed in cedar-bark clothing carrying a stone-tipped spear. The Wild Man vanishes into the forest but the dog reappears and leads Andy to ... the Wild Mans lair at the mouth of a cave. Its fear that drives Andy into the cave and to the adventure of a lifetime. Whats at stake are the discoveries Andys father died trying to find the answers to the most exciting puzzle in American archeology -- who were the first Americans?