Far North
‘’Mayday landed on the river. Engine out. Floating toward the falls’’. These lines had me hooked from the start. I will soon explain why this had me hooked. The book Far North by Will Hobbs is adventurist and is one of few books that doesn't make you want to put the book down. It all starts off as a fifteen-year-old named Gabe Rogers goes with his boarding school roommate into Canada’s Northwest Territories on the Nahanni River. Their pilot is experienced, and they are traveling on the river on their Cessna Seaplane and eventually land after traveling for a few hours from where they started. They are floating down the river at an easy pace and soon find themselves coming upon a huge waterfall that is home for unforgiving rapids. The boys and pilot find themselves between a rock and a hard place and need to decide on what to do during this difficult time. As a personal review of this book, I really enjoyed it because it was full of action and was not boring like some other books out there. I would recommend this book to just about anybody who loves the outdoors like myself, and this is a book that I hope none of us outdoor enthusiasts experience, but is still fun to read. - Charlie Craig