Donn Fendler (1926–2016)
Forfatter af Lost on a Mountain in Maine
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Donn Conner Fendler was born in Rye, New York on August 29, 1926. At the age of 12, he went on a hike with a group that included his father and brothers up Mount Katahdin in Maine. Bad weather struck and he became lost. He spent nine days wandering around in the wilderness until he found vis mere civilization. He wrote an account of his adventure with Joseph B. Egan entitled Lost on a Mountain in Maine. He received the Army and Navy Legion of Valor medal, recognizing him as the outstanding youth hero of 1939. In 1944, he enlisted in the Navy and served as a Seabee in the Pacific theater during World War II. He studied forestry at the University of Maine for two years and briefly attended the University of Georgia before making a career in the Army. He trained as a Green Beret and served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division. He was posted to West Germany in 1962. With the rank of lieutenant colonel, he later assumed command of a battalion at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He retired in 1978. In 2011, he told his story in a graphic novel entitled Lost Trail scripted by Lynn Plourde and illustrated by Ben Bishop. He died on October 9, 2016 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- Juridisk navn
- Fendler, Donn Conner
- Fødselsdato
- 1926-08-29
- Dødsdag
- 2016-10-09
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Rye, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Bangor, Maine, USA
- Bopæl
- Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA
Clarksville, Tennessee, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Maine
University of Georgia - Erhverv
- Green Beret
lieutenant colonel - Organisationer
- United States Navy
United States Army
Baxter State Park (Maine)
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Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness af Donn Fendler
Kids who like this might like Night of the Howling Dogs. I loved this, and only wish it was more detailed - it would be amazing to hear some stories from the search parties and rangers.
Pretty interesting - the choice to use Fendler's unvarnished narrative of the entire experience and to just have footnotes explaining what was going on is really good. ...Kind of hard to find much else to say about a book this short, though.
In 1939, at the age of 12, Donn Fendler went on a hike with his dad and brothers to the top of Mt Katahdin, the highest point in Maine, and the second highest on the East Coast. He gets separated from his party (he admits to his own stupidity in wandering off) and spends the next 9 days surviving alone in the wilderness, covering a staggering amount of territory and beating almost impossible odds.
My boyfriend picked up this book after we'd had our own unfortunate incident summiting this peak after an act of similar stupidity (he was using carbide-tipped hiking sticks to brace himself, ended up falling over 20 feet and dislocating three fingers). It was interesting to read about Donn's experiences in the same vicinity, before the trails were half as well-marked as they are now.
Donn's frightening adventure was suspenseful, and he and his ghostwriter did a good job of narrating from a 12-year-old's perspective. Donn seems to have made quite the career of telling this story over and over to young people, hopefully preventing some foolhardy youngster from disengaging from his or her party on some future trek. My only complaint (and this is just me) is that Donn is very religious and credits his survival to the Christian god, with quite a lot of this brief tale devoted to the semi-lucid experience and praise thereof.… (mere)
My boyfriend picked up this book after we'd had our own unfortunate incident summiting this peak after an act of similar stupidity (he was using carbide-tipped hiking sticks to brace himself, ended up falling over 20 feet and dislocating three fingers). It was interesting to read about Donn's experiences in the same vicinity, before the trails were half as well-marked as they are now.
Donn's frightening adventure was suspenseful, and he and his ghostwriter did a good job of narrating from a 12-year-old's perspective. Donn seems to have made quite the career of telling this story over and over to young people, hopefully preventing some foolhardy youngster from disengaging from his or her party on some future trek. My only complaint (and this is just me) is that Donn is very religious and credits his survival to the Christian god, with quite a lot of this brief tale devoted to the semi-lucid experience and praise thereof.… (mere)
A true story of survival previously unknown to me. It is neat that the prose remains consistent with what 12-yr old Donn Fendler probably actually thought and experienced way back in 1939. What a lucky boy, to have survived 9 days in the vicinity of Mt. Katahdin... when hundreds of searchers were looking in all the wrong places. Young Donn's constant turning to God in prayer throughout the ordeal struck a chord--God is the only one we can turn to in such circumstances.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans were probably tracking the search through the newspapers, and I particularly liked this excerpt:
"For at no time in human life will men find a greater courage in their hearts and in their weary bodies than when in youth, like Donn, they are returning home." - Boston Transcript (July 27, 1939)… (mere)
Hundreds of thousands of Americans were probably tracking the search through the newspapers, and I particularly liked this excerpt:
"For at no time in human life will men find a greater courage in their hearts and in their weary bodies than when in youth, like Donn, they are returning home." - Boston Transcript (July 27, 1939)… (mere)
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