u/Substantial_Art9120

This is a book I read as a child in the 90s, about a teenage boy flying over the Alaskan Wilderness, the pilot has a medical episode and the plane goes down in an isolated lake. The boy has only the clothes on his back and a single hatchet.

He survives 54 days until he is able to retrieve a radio from the sunken wreckage of the plane.

In that time he goes from city kid to reasonably accomplished fisher/hunter/shooter, making his own shelter and tools, having a few dangerous animal encounters.

There are some follow up novels where he returns to the wilderness for adventures as an older lad.

I loved it and would recommend for anyone who likes the Alone show.

PDF might be free online... cough cough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet_(novel)