NorthwindBy: Gary Paulsen From Gary Paulsen, the bestselling and much loved author of Hatchet, comes another high stakes survival story about a young boy on the knife edge between life and death, where the raging seas meet a coastal wilderness. When a deadly plague reaches the small fish camp where he lives, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord riven shore, thrown from one danger to