If you could take only one with you

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No, not a knife, or a fire maker, but just one survival manual, bush crafting tome, or any book at all. It can weigh as much as it weighs, but it must be, or have been, actually in print.

Say you would be trekking Alaska for the summer and have no spare funds to blow at the local general store or truck stop on new reading material.

No lists or honorable mentions please. Your pack has room for a one volume library, be it by Lofty Wiseman or Leo Tolstoy. Which book is in it? Is it even a survival/bush book?
 
oh that's a hard choice. generally speaking, i don't bring reading material with me when i go into the bush, i am usually too tired to read or i have twenty other things that i still have to do.

but i if i did decide to bring a book with me, it would probably be "My Side of the Mountain". it got me into this mess (my inspiration) and it always serves as a good little reminder for me to rekindle the flame.

it also has some neat little tips and tricks and some nice little camp projects for me to try.
 
I always bring something since I have been socked into my tent by the weather a few times where endless card games didn't relieve the boredom.

I am still mulling my choice for my own game.:D
 
It would be a reference guide to edible plants and berries in the area, I can't name a specific book as it would depend where I was going !!!
 
What ever book i read at the time.... There is always something to read in my pack. I carry something to read even when i go backpacking. Last time i carried two books to the high sierra.

Sash
 
Bible, New American Standard Bible to be specific.
Survival manual for the soul.

In fact I do carry it with me.
 
A blank composition book, a mechanical pencil, extra lead, and and erasers. I can read a good book in a couple of days, but a journal will keep me quiet all summer long.
 
If I had to take only one, it would be a fire piston. It's the only thing that will never run out. If by some crazy chance it broke beyond repair, I'm pretty good with a bow drill.
 
Bushcraft by Mors, or else the blank Journal- It would make it easier to rip out a page for firestarting if it was blank!!
 
Vergil's Aeneid; in Latin. That'll slow me down enough to make it last. I'd tuck a few small sheets of paper and a pencil stub in the back for jotting or journalling.
 
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