catskill mountains (n.y.)

The author brings back characters from her classic "My Side of the Mountain" in this story about a falcon chick named Oksi, one of Frightful's babies, who is rescued and nursed through her first winter by Sam, a boy who lives alone, at one with nature, on a mountain nearby.

Reprints over fifty color plates created by Arthur Rackman as illustrations for the 1905 edition of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," and includes the text of the story about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up to find a very different world.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains, including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.