What book is this?

Question

I'm trying to remember a book I read when I was a little kid. I don't remember much about it. It's about a boy who is transported to...the future, I think? Anyways, he gets transported to the future and he strats out in this jungle type place. All the animals are similar to the ones we have on Earth, but also different. Later on in the story, he finds a cillage type thing, and their most sacred artifact is a coke bottle they found, and he realizes its the future. Anyone recognize this book?

This book was a kid's book - not Planet of the Apes. Wasn't "The Gods must be crazy" either. I remember in the book, the kid lived in a tree for a while. The book was probably out...oh, about 8 years ago or so...

Answer 1

Probably "The Transall Saga" by Gary Paulsen... I don't remember it very well, but he's taken to a village, first as a slave and then "adopted" by a family when he comes back to warn them of enemies after escaping... something like that.
Also, he's the only one with blue eyes and blonde hair. He got through by a portal in a desert... and there's another man from the past in there with him. He defeats the other man, because he was becoming a dictator.
Then he goes back to the past and spends his life working on a cure to the disease that will wipe out most of the world's population, leaving it as desolate and wild as it was when he visited the future.

That's my best guess.

Answer 2

There is a cult movie classic called 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' that centers around a Coke bottle and a bunch of African villagers who revere it. It may have been based on a book?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy

Answer 3

It is "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and they made it into a fantastic movie

it is about a Bushman that finds an old coke bottle and feels he must trek to the sea to throw it in the ocean


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy

Answer 4

Atlantis?
The Blackhole?

Answer 5

sounds like planet of the apes

Answer 6

"the gods must be crazy"