The Revenant: The bestselling book that inspired the award-winning movie

The Revenant: The bestselling book that inspired the award-winning movie
Michael Punke

Winner of 3 OSCARS including BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTORWinner of 5 BAFTAS including Best Actor, Best Director and Best FilmWinner of the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor – Drama, and Best DirectorThe novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already.Rocky Mountains, 1823The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker.But when a scouting mission puts Glass face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two men from the company are ordered to remain with him until his inevitable death. But, fearing an imminent attack, they abandon Glass, stripping him of his prized rifle and hatchet.As Glass watches the men flee, he is driven to survive by one all-consuming desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, he sets out on a three-thousand-mile journey across the harsh American frontier, to seek revenge on the men who betrayed him.The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

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Originally published in 2002 by Carroll & Graf

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Source ISBN: 9780007521326

Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008117597

Version: 2015-11-24

Dedication (#ucf88d01f-9da5-532f-a66b-84de15e87328)

For my parents, Marilyn and Butch Punke

Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

—Rom. 12:19

Contents

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Title Page (#u7f84b196-ff36-56ba-89b7-dffaf5d6df4b)

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph (#udbf82e05-f9b5-54c7-9bd2-2e08281e560d)

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September 1, 1823

Part One

Chapter One: August 21, 1823

Chapter Two: August 23, 1823

Chapter Three: August 24, 1823

Chapter Four: August 28, 1823

Chapter Five: August 30, 1823

Chapter Six: August 31, 1823

Chapter Seven: September 2, 1823—Morning

Chapter Eight: September 2, 1823—Afternoon

Chapter Nine: September 8, 1823

Chapter Ten: September 15, 1823

Chapter Eleven: September 16, 1823

Chapter Twelve: September 17, 1823

Chapter Thirteen: October 5, 1823

Chapter Fourteen: October 6, 1823

Chapter Fifteen: October 9, 1823

Part Two