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wilderness—and he seemed ready to meet any mishap with the same courage he had shown during those nine days in the forest.
    Anxious to see her son again, as soon as possible, Mrs. Fendler—accompanied by her loyal friend, Mrs. Charles Mangan, who had been constantly at her side throughout the long, soul-trying ordeal—had set out by canoe from Grindstone. The touching reunion between mother and son took place in mid-river, when the canoes met, about a quarter of a mile above Grindstone.
    The party then continued down to the little Maine village where an ambulance waited to take Donn and his mother to Bangor. Mr. Fendler was confined at the Eastern Maine General Hospital, with a serious eye injury sustained in the course of the long hunt. And it was there, in a hospital room, that the reunion of the entire family took place.
    Meanwhile, throughout the nine days that the boy was lost, millions of people followed the fruitless progress of the search in the press of the country. Although the searchers themselves had given up all thought of finding the boy alive, thousands of mothers throughout America still hoped for his safe return. Their spirit and their hope is perhaps best described in the concluding paragraphs of an editorial appearing in the Boston Transcript of July 27, 1939.
    â€œBut after the searchers had turned back, and after the press had pronounced his return hopeless, thousands of mothers in America did not give up hope. They scanned the papers daily for word; they watched their own sons a bit more closely. There was a stout trail of hope being blazed for this boy.
    â€œAnd, if there was such amazing strength of survival in Donn, we wonder if it was not in large measure due to the powerful sending and receiving apparatus of mother-to-son and son-to-mother. 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.”

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    L OST ON A MOUNTAIN IN MAINE . Copyright © 1978 by Picton Press, publisher of the hardcover edition. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Fendler, Donn, (date).
    [Donn Fendler, lost on a mountain in Maine]
    Lost on a mountain in Maine : a brave boy’s true story of his nine-day adventure alone in the Mount Katahdin wilderness / Donn Fendler, as told to Joseph B. Egan.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â p.    cm.
    Originally published by New Hampshire Pub. Co, Somersworth, New Hampshire, c1978 under title : Donn Fendler, lost on a mountain in Maine.
    Summary: A twelve-year-old describes his nine-day struggles to survive after being separated from his companions in the mountains of Maine in 1939.
    1. Katahdin, Mount (Me.)—Juvenile literature. 2. Fendler, Donn—Juvenile literature. 3. Rye (N.Y)—Biography—Juvenile literature. [1. Survival. 2. Fendler, Donn.] I. Egan, Joseph B. (Joseph Burke), b. 1879. II. Title.
    ISBN 978-0-688-11573-9
    EPub Edition October 2013 ISBN 9780062225160
[F27.P5F45 1992]
 
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