<P> Brian Robeson is a thirteen - year - old son of divorced parents . As he travels from Hampton , New York on a Cessna 406 bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields in Northern Canada for the summer , the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies . Brian tries to land the plane , but ends up crash - landing into a lake in the forest . He must learn to survive on his own with nothing but his hatchet -- a gift his mother gave him shortly before his plane departed . </P>
<P> Brian Robeson is a thirteen - year - old son of divorced parents . As he travels from Hampton , New York on a Cessna 406 bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields in Northern Canada for the summer , the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies . Brian tries to land the plane , but ends up crash - landing into a lake in the forest . He must learn to survive on his own with nothing but his hatchet -- a gift his mother gave him shortly before his plane departed . </P>
where was brian going in the book hatchet
where was brian going in the book hatchet
Northern Canada
Northern Canada