survival novels

Well, I'm sorry to say that after looking into it for a while, it sure does look like the book I recommended, "the Long Walk" by Slavomir Rawicz was in factg not a true story.

I thought, when I read it, that there were some things in there that were just the product of a somewhat disordered mind resulting from the intense psychological strain of the trek, but now the strong impression I have is that the whole thing was simply fiction.

That's sure a sad thing, I've probably recommended this book to hundreds of people and I always thought it was a pretty inspirational account of survival against all odds. But it's really just somebody wanting to be a hero, I guess.

My mistake!
 
Once again I'll mention...

Raven's Prey by Slim Randles.

The author is an old Alaskan Sourdough former Sleddog racer...he brings alot of perspective about surviving alone in Alaska. A great read.
 
misanthropist said:
Well, I'm sorry to say that after looking into it for a while, it sure does look like the book I recommended, "the Long Walk" by Slavomir Rawicz was in factg not a true story.

I thought, when I read it, that there were some things in there that were just the product of a somewhat disordered mind resulting from the intense psychological strain of the trek, but now the strong impression I have is that the whole thing was simply fiction.

That's sure a sad thing, I've probably recommended this book to hundreds of people and I always thought it was a pretty inspirational account of survival against all odds. But it's really just somebody wanting to be a hero, I guess.

My mistake!
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What makes you say that? I'm reading it now...I thought it was a true story.
 
No love for Island of the Blue Dolphins ????!!!!!:grumpy:
I loved that book as a kid
It turns out the REAL island is about 10 miles from my house (as the crow flies over the ocean)
(It's one of The Channel Islands I believe??...)

What about Lord of the Flies??
It's all about the CONCH!!!!!!

I haven't read the book, but the movie Touching The Void is awesome :thumbup:
http://www.amazon.com/Touching-Void-Story-Miraculous-Survival/dp/0060730552

Yeah!!
On The Beach!!!
Great book!!!
Two thumbs up from T Rock
Armageddon literature at it's finest IMHO
I think I read that in 10th grade
I put that on Trent's Top 59 Books of ALL Time :thumbup:

My recommendation is Mountain Man: A Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West by Vardis Fisher
It has a lot of survivalism details (at least in a mountain man sense)
It is a "fiction" book but it has a lot of info on the life and daily struggle to survive of The Mountain Men :thumbup:
Who would have known that a little bit of duck fat and an obsidian rock could make a nice knife sharpener???

http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Man-Novel-Female-American/dp/0893012513/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204347567&sr=1-1
 
T. Erdelyi said:
The classic Alive about a bunch of soccer players crashin' in the mountains, a lot of Tom Brown's books, The Tracker and a few others I don't remember the titles to.

Frank Herberts books are all otherworldly survival novel of some type.
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+1000 for Herbert. A lot you can learn about the survival mentality from his work. One of my favorite authors.
 
mtrunner said:
What makes you say that? I'm reading it now...I thought it was a true story.
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Looks like his story was controversial from the get-go, so several groups and people investigated his claims and they don't really line up with reality. Also, it turns out there is a fair amount of documentation of his release in 1942 with a bunch of other Poles who were then flown to Iran, IIRC, and there is documentatI ion of his arrival there.

Anyway I learned all about it through google and following links from the wikipedia page about the book.

Sad thing!
 
misanthropist said:
Looks like his story was controversial from the get-go, so several groups and people investigated his claims and they don't really line up with reality. Also, it turns out there is a fair amount of documentation of his release in 1942 with a bunch of other Poles who were then flown to Iran, IIRC, and there is documentatI ion of his arrival there.

Anyway I learned all about it through google and following links from the wikipedia page about the book.

Sad thing!
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Wow...I wouldn't have guessed it was fiction...thanks for pointing this out.
 
the long walk.

dont remember the author off hand, but it is about a group of mixed soilders who escapes a siberian prison camp and hike to india. -it is a true story and very good read.
 
"Under and Alone" by William Queen. Not so much a wilderness survival story but more of an urban one. Non-fiction, William Queen (a law enforcement officer) goes under cover to infiltrate a biker gang known as the Mongols.

Good read!
 
+3 for 'Dies the fire' The first three books are good,

The best overall surviaval sea book. That happens to be true. A page turner. 76 days in a life raft, with not enough food or water to last more then 7 days. It is amazoning what he went through. The Auther kept a running dairy of what happened, the book is that dairy edited and wow.

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
 
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