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Good List

I would add the Peterson Guides for Edible and Medicinal plants as they are both good.

How To Survive Anywhere - Christopher Nyergers - has some good stuff and is thought provoking.
 
Quiet Bear said:
Good List

I would add the Peterson Guides for Edible and Medicinal plants as they are both good.

How To Survive Anywhere - Christopher Nyergers - has some good stuff and is thought provoking.
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How To Survive Anywhere by Christopher Nyergers is a great book. I am surprised it don't get more recognition.
 
I found an older book recently that is easily my favorite bushcraft that I've ever read. It's called "Skills for Taming the Wilds: A Handbook of Woodcraft Wisdom" by Bradford Angier. Good stuff, loaded with good info.
 
Ragnar Benson's Survival Poaching

A Physicians Desk Reference

Benson's Survival Medicine

And Don Paul's Green Beret Compass Course

So you can be kept fed, healthy, know how to medicate a condition with less then savory meds and how not to get lost with the crudest of modern equipment, a glow in the dark compass avialable almost anywhere and the batteries never wear out.
 
I read a book about 30 years ago about surviving in your home. Some really good advise on how and what to stock up on while living a normal life.
Simple ideas such as - Buy two cases of all the foods you normally eat. After one has been exhaused buy another one.

I think is many survial situations it will be those that can stay at home, safe and fed that will survive the longest.
If you want to read an interesting book try: The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy.
 
Woodcraft and Camping - Nessmuk
 
Serrinon said:
oh there are two bushcraft books, Any thoughts on which author did a better job? I'll add those now.
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Kochanski's book is better at instructing knife and axe work. Graves' is better at everything else.


SpookyPistolero said:
I found an older book recently that is easily my favorite bushcraft that I've ever read. It's called "Skilled for Taming the Wilds: A Handbook of Woodcraft Wisdom" by Bradford Angier. Good stuff, loaded with good info.
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I have that book, but had forgot about it. I agree, Angier rocks.

As for videos, Kochanski has some, but I forget what they're called. There is also a guy on Ebay that sells DVDs on skinning game. I bought the squirrel one just to check it out, and think they are an excellent deal for those that have no clue about skinning and cleaning small game. Do a search for squirrel video and you should find them.
 
For DVD's, put Preparing to Survive by Peter Kummerfeldt. I have it and it is a very good DVD, lots of no-nonsense survival info. Kummerfeldt was director of Survival Training at the Airforce Academy for 10-15 years and an instructor in the Air Force for over 30 years, so he knows his stuff. He also has a book, but I haven't read it so I don't have an opinion on it.
 
Great project, Serrinon.

The Boy Scout Field Book has far more bushcrafty information than the Hand Book. It was intended to be that way. The older editions seem better IMO than the newer ones.

Knotty books:

Scout Pioneering, John Sweet, Scouts Canada

Knots Useful and Ornamental, George Russell Shaw, Houghton Mifflin

The Directory of Knots, John Shaw, Chartwell Books

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots & Ropework, Geoffrey Budworth, Hermes House

Field navigation:

Be Expert With Map and Compass, Bjorn Kjellstrom, Scribners

First-person accounts of wilderness living:

The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Coming of Age in the Arctic, Edward Beauclerk Maurice, Mariner Books
 
This is really beefing up! Might have to change the organization of it at somepoint. I've got to get some shut eye, so I'll update it tomorrow.

But in the mean time, seems like we don't have much on firstaid/medical or hunting. Anyone have something they recommend that would be more indepth than what you would read in the general surviral books?
 
Serrinon said:
oh there are two bushcraft books, Any thoughts on which author did a better job? I'll add those now.
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:D Actually there were three that I know of:

Northern Bushcraft, Mors L. Kochanski, Lone Pine Publishing, 1987, ISBN# 0-919433-51-0 and is titled Bushcraft in the later editions.

Bushcraft, Richard Graves, Schocken Books, 1974, ISBN# 0-8052-0333-8

Bushcraft, Ray Mears, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002, ISBN# 0-340-79258-2

I think you've taken on quite a job there. Good luck!

Doc
 
longbow50 said:
98.6 degrees "The art of Keeping your ass alive! by Cody Lundin

Bushcraft-A serious guide to survival and camping by Peter Graves Printed 1972-1984 (out of print but still available if you check around)

Boy Scouts of America Manual. Mine was given to me in 1961. Lots of good basic information that will save your life.
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Longbow, were you by chance, a Mission Impossible fan (the old tv series, that is)?

Peter Graves was the star. Richard Graves wrote Bushcraft. :)

Doc
 
Hey Doc, didn't see the error. Thanks for pointing it out. Not really on mission impossible, but have a friend Peter that is having some difficulties, so that's probably why I made the error.
 
longbow50 said:
Hey Doc, didn't see the error. Thanks for pointing it out. Not really on mission impossible, but have a friend Peter that is having some difficulties, so that's probably why I made the error.
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Sorry to hear that. I hope everything works out all right.

I just got a grin out of Peter Graves and I couldn't resist.

Cheers!

Doc
 
Great list! I see a couple hundred $ worth of library upgade in the near future.

A book with a lot of info on preparedness in general, not necessarily outdoors; "Dare to Prepare" by Holly Deyo. You can look at the website (standeyo.com) and get some idea whats in the book by clicking on the "Preparedness" link on the sidebar
 
led4them said:
Great list! I see a couple hundred $ worth of library upgade in the near future.
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I'm just as bad. I can never make an order from Amazon that's under $200.

The only book I can think of to add to this list is a basic Spanish/English dictionary, not to study but to have in your master kit when things go sideways. I don't know about you guys, but there's a lot of people in my town who's English is worse than my Spanish, if you can believe it.

It might be easier to get by if I could communicate well enough to trade wild food or firewood for medicine or ammo, not to mention the possibility that the sh*t could hit the fan hard enough that crossing a border (or two) might be necessary.

Of course, the members of this forum are from all over the world, so feel free to change "Spanish/English" to something more sensible for your location.
 
Hey all I was wondering if we should make this thread a sticky so it is always available? Do we need to contact a mod? If so I do not mind asking.
 
Hey all! Thank you for the posts!! I've got it all up to date now. Keep them coming if you think of more.

Now that we've got a number of books, lets list the top 5 we'd get if we were choosing from this list.
 
I forgot, Bruce D. Clayton's "Life After Doomsday." If I could have only five books on nuts and bolts survival, two of them would be Risk and Clayton's and one would be the compilation book from Wiseman. Barry Davie's elongated pocket book on SAS Survival is excellent and handy as well.
 
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