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What was that book?

MKRMKR Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
A long time ago I read a book about Alaska. I forget the particulars, but it involved a brother and a sister lost in the Alaskan wilderness. They talked a lot about wax-covered matches.

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  • Dr. GeroDr. Gero Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I think they made a movie of this too. The brother bitched about eating fish head soup?

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I think the movie was just called "Alaska". Would the book be too?

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  • November FifthNovember Fifth Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    You might be thinking of Cold River by William Judson about a brother and sister who have to survive in the Adirondack Mountains after their father dies of a heart attack.

    It was made into a 1981 film.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    The cover is vaguely familiar (I remember it had a lot of blue), and the plot doesn't seem like something that would be done more than once.

    I'm tentatively going with that one, though it's annoying that Google Books doesn't have a preview. :(

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  • KetarKetar Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    MKR wrote: »
    The cover is vaguely familiar (I remember it had a lot of blue), and the plot doesn't seem like something that would be done more than once.

    I'm tentatively going with that one, though it's annoying that Google Books doesn't have a preview. :(

    Amazon has some pretty lengthy excerpts available for it.

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