Best Survival Story Book ?

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Jeff S

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Hey All,

Saw the post on survival movies and was wondering what survival books are good,not about skills but about real stories of survival.

Thanks

Jeff Sanders
 
"Tunnel in The Sky" by Robert A. Heinlein is quite good. Briefly, in the future, mankind develops a way to open 'wormholes' from any point in space to any other. A group of students on their final exam for a survival class are stranded on another planet when something goes wrong with the system. I like it because there is no hope for quick rescue, and survival takes on a new meaning.

--JB

P.S., for those who don't like Sci-Fi, just ignore those parts. Heinlein is pretty good about not making the plot depend on the technical stuff.

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The first Story would be from the Bible, about Noah and the Flood. The first,God Sanctioned,official survivalist!!
The second story is Robinson Crusoe, By Daniel Defeo.
The Third Story is "No Surrender:My thirty year war",by Lt. Hiroo Onoda. he was the Japanese soldier that spent thirty years in the jungles of the Philippines. Still thinking the war was still going on. Lots of good survival wisdom in that story.

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[This message has been edited by Big-Target (edited 04-30-2000).]
 
Hello Jeff,

Two of my favorites are:
1. "Staying Alive" by Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, a couple who spent 117 days on a liferaft after thier boat sank.

2."BAT-21" by William C. Anderson, the story of Lt. Colonel Iceal Hambleton, who was played by Gene Hackmen in the movie of the same title.

Ken
 
How about "Five Years to Freedom" by Col. James N. Rowe?

I have been meaning to read one called "Survive the Savage Sea" by Dougal Robertson
 
If you can find it, try

"Survival : True Sportsmen's Adventures" By Ben East. 1967

Amazon list it as out-of-print but you may be able to dig up a copy.

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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen...about a young boy who's in a bush plane that crashes...very short, very good...it is a "young adult" book but worth a read.
 
I like the Gary Paulsen books too. Hatchet, Brian's Winter (what it would have been like if he hadn't been rescued before winter), The River (Where he returns with a psychologist to see why he is different from people who don't survive).
While these are children's books some of the ideas expressed are very valuable - mostly in terms of psychology and strategy.
 
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