please recomend a good wilderness survival book

7

79mongoose

Joined
Dec 14, 2004
Messages
77
I was wondering if anyone could recomend a book that could teach the skills that would keep you alive if you were ever stranded in the woods. Thanks in advance for the replys.
 
Moving to Wilderness & Survival Skills -- I'm sure you'll get some answers there but in my opinion you can get more out of that forum than any paper book you can find. :cool:
 
Primitve wilderness living and survival skills is a good one with lots of good stuff also primitve living, self-sufficiency, and survival skills for one that is less primitve then bushcraft by mors kochanski all of these books are really good, I have alot of books on survival but these are some of the best.
 
You should also check out Greg Davenport's books and site at www.simplysurvival.com

Another that provides a lot of insight is Cody Lundins book "98.6 degrees, The art of keeping your ass alive".

Both can be very helpful.

For medical, I find "Wilderness Medicine" by Dr. Wm. Forgey to be well thought out and helpful in organizing a concise FAK.
 
I strongly suggest "98.6 - The art of Keeping Your Ass Alive" by Cody Lundin. It's very "readable" and full of practical information. Cody is not, however, a knife expert, although his advice on knives won't endanger you. The book is endorsed by the President of NASAR (National Association for Search and Rescue).

Another standard is John Weisman's Survive Safely Anywhere, the SAS Survival Manual. Mr. Weisman taught wilderness survival to the UK's Special Air Service, which fills the same nitch as our Seals.

A good website is WWW.EQUIPPED.COM.
 
Click the link below to a review I wrote up of several survival manuals:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=241120

The review was written before Cody Lundin's book or "Deep Survival" were on the market.

Remember, survival manual info will be relatively meaningless without "practice.....practice.....practice", even if that practice is done in your backyard. The valuable time will be that spent in the field honing your skills, not the time spent perusing the pages of a book, no matter how good the book. The point being to know the "when-to and how-to" of the needed skills before the SHTF situation arises. After you've gotten yourself wet & cold in windy conditions is not the time to be learning basic firestarting or shelter construction.

Bottom line: reading about the skills is good, practicing them is better.
 
ACMarina said:
You can usually find the USAF and US Army survival books for close to nothing. .
Click to expand...

And worth every penny. :D

Seriously, while military "survival" manuels have some value, combat survival has some significant differences, such as avoiding detection vs. getting found. Equipment emphasis is not on best choices but using issue gear -- or field-expedient substitutes.
 
but in case something like "red dawn", or "the hunted" happens to one of us that info would be usefull dont ya think? just kidding, but knowing how to evade someone is usefull incase of suspicius looking people fallowing you, or if you play paintball.
 
elvenbladesmith07 said:
but in case something like "red dawn", or "the hunted" happens to one of us that info would be usefull dont ya think? just kidding, but knowing how to evade someone is usefull incase of suspicius looking people fallowing you, or if you play paintball.
Click to expand...

"Wilderness survival" vs "survivalism."
 
not sure what was ment by that. but all im saying is survival doesnt have to be in the middle of th woods. every step out of the comforts of home is technically self preservation.
 
We may need our skills at anytime and the ability to evade people that will do us harm is something the think about, red dawn is a good movie but takeing on people like that will get you killed which is sort of bad for survival.We need to take a page from the native americans they lived what we call survival everyday and had deal with people that wanted to kill them.But getting back to books 6 ways in 12 ways out is pretty good to,also start getting backwoodsman magazine if you do not already it has helped me alot over the years.
 
elvenbladesmith07 said:
not sure what was ment by that. but all im saying is survival doesnt have to be in the middle of th woods. every step out of the comforts of home is technically self preservation.
Click to expand...

There is commonly a distinction between "wilderness survival" and the somewhat different set of skills studied and practiced by "survivalists" to deal with social breakdown on a limited or massive (up to TEOTWAWKI) scale.
 
If you are or going to carry a survival kit or are thinking about it, I agree with Thomas Linton. The book you are looking for to keep yourself alive should a situation arise is "98.6..." by Cody Lundin. I would then recommend a second book, either "Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival" or "Bushcraft" by Mors Kochanski to learn specific skills to supplement 98.6.

I am not big on recommendations as to each their own, but I strongly recommend the fore mentioned. Best of Luck!
 
The Cody Lundin book is great.

But I highly, highly recommend Deep Survival, by Gonzales. Fabulous book with many stories that will do more than anything else to help on the most important aspect, the psychology of survival.
 
The Complete Book of Outdoor Survival by J. Wayne Fears is a great all around survival book. Recently came out in soft cover. Check out Amazon.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top