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Authors: Erin Hunter

The Last Wilderness

Other books by Erin Hunter

SEEKERS

Book One: The Quest Begins

Book Two: Great Bear Lake

Book Three: Smoke Mountain

MANGA: Toklo’s Story

WARRIORS

Book One: Into the Wild

Book Two: Fire and Ice

Book Three: Forest of Secrets

Book Four: Rising Storm

Book Five: A Dangerous Path

Book Six: The Darkest Hour

WARRIORS: THE NEW PROPHECY

Book One: Midnight

Book Two: Moonrise

Book Three: Dawn

Book Four: Starlight

Book Five: Twilight

Book Six: Sunset

WARRIORS: POWER OF THREE

Book One: The Sight

Book Two: Dark River

Book Three: Outcast

Book Four: Eclipse

Book Five: Long Shadows

Book Six: Sunrise

WARRIORS: OMEN OF THE STARS

Book One: The Fourth Apprentice

WARRIORS MANGA

Book One: The Lost Warrior

Book Two: Warrior’s Refuge

Book Three: Warrior’s Return

The Rise of Scourge

Tigerstar and Sasha #1: Into the Woods

Tigerstar and Sasha #2: Escape from the Forest

Tigerstar and Sasha #3: Return to the Clans

Ravenpaw’s Path #1: Shattered Peace

WARRIORS SPECIALS

Warriors Super Edition: Firestar’s Quest

Warriors Field Guide: Secrets of the Clans

Warriors: Cats of the Clans

Warriors: Code of the Clans

ERIN HUNTER

First published in Great Britain 2010
by Egmont UK Limited
239 Kensington High Street
London W8 6SA

Text copyright © 2010 Working Partners Limited

The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted

First e-book edition 2011
ISBN 978 1 7803 1030 5

1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Also By

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Map

Chapter One: Ujurak

Chapter Two: Lusa

Chapter Three: Toklo

Chapter Four: Kallik

Chapter Five: Lusa

Chapter Six: Toklo

Chapter Seven: Toklo

Chapter Eight: Ujurak

Chapter Nine: Kallik

Chapter Ten: Lusa

Chapter Eleven: Toklo

Chapter Twelve: Ujurak

Chapter Thirteen: Kallik

Chapter Fourteen: Ujurak

Chapter Fifteen: Toklo

Chapter Sixteen: Kallik

Chapter Seventeen: Ujurak

Chapter Eighteen: Lusa

Chapter Nineteen: Ujurak

Chapter Twenty: Toklo

Chapter Twenty-One: Ujurak

Chapter Twenty-Two: Kallik

Chapter Twenty-Three: Lusa

Chapter Twenty-Four: Toklo

Chapter Twenty-Five: Lusa

Chapter Twenty-Six: Toklo

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Kallik

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Lusa

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Ujurak

Chapter Thirty: Kallik

Chapter Thirty-One: Toklo

Chapter Thirty-Two: Ujurak

Chapter Thirty-Three: Ujurak

Chapter Thirty-Four: Kallik

About the Author

About the Publisher

With special thanks to Cherith Baldry

The Bears’ Journey: Bear View

The Bears’ Journey: Human View

CHAPTER ONE:
Ujurak

W
ind buffeted Ujurak’s fur as he plunged down the mountain slope towards the rolling foothills below, where the caribou were grazing.

It was late burn-sky, and after the recent rains the air was filled with delicious smells. Ujurak drew them in with every breath: scents of prey, of green growing plants, and underlying it all the salt tang of the sea.

As he bounded down the slope he glanced round at his friends. The white bear Kallik raced beside him, her stride as smooth as flowing water, her twitching nose sniffing the air. After so many moons of travelling through dark forests and over sunbaked rocks, Ujurak wondered if she could smell the sea-ice at last, the smell of her home.

He heard a
whoomph
and glanced back just in time
to see the black bear Lusa tripping over her own paws in her haste to keep up. She rolled several bearlengths before scrambling up and continuing to pelt downward. She was the smallest of the four bears by a lot now, and she seemed to run two strides for every one of theirs, but she was never outpaced for long.

And charging ahead, his tufty ears flattened by the wind, was the brown bear Toklo – always out in front, always the first. Warmth welled up inside Ujurak. Toklo had trusted him enough to come with him all this way, so far that Ujurak could hardly remember the mountains where he had met Toklo and then Lusa. Suddenly he wanted to be able to remember every pawstep, picture every day they had spent walking, walking, walking, all the way to the edge of the world.

Because finally they had reached their journey’s end. They’d found the Last Wilderness.

Down on the grassy hills, the caribou raised their heads as the bears hurtled towards them.

‘Watch out!’ Ujurak snarled. ‘Here we come!’

Toklo glanced over his shoulder. ‘They’re too big to hunt, feather-brain!’ he called.

Ujurak huffed at him. He wasn’t really going to
hunt the giant caribou; strong as he was, he knew he was still small enough to run right under the bellies of the longest-legged creatures. He was just enjoying the feeling of unstoppable running, his paws skimming over the grass with a satisfying hiss, the fur along his flanks slicked down and rippling in the breeze he had created.

They had reached the foothills now, swerving down the gently swollen slopes until they rushed straight into the herd of grazing caribou. Close up, the horned beasts were huge, and they swung their heavy heads to glance lazily at the bears, unafraid of Ujurak and his companions. There were so many of them, Ujurak couldn’t see to the other side of the herd once he was on their level. All he could see was a forest of legs as thin as sticks, topped with pale, hairy bellies. The caribou’s pelts gave off a powerful musky scent that made Ujurak puff and wrinkle his nose.

Toklo darted to one side and led the bears out of the herd, sending the caribou scattering. The valley opened up in front of them again, and Ujurak blinked in the bright sunshine. A vast green plain unrolled at his paws, dotted here and there with clumps of dark spiky grass with still, silvery water just visible
between the stalks. Through his wind-watering eyes, Ujurak could see patches of white where flocks of geese had landed to feed in the damp grassland.

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