Top 3 Outdoor Books.....

ksquared

ksquared

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What are your top 3 outdoor/wilderness books? Instructional or otherwise......

Mine are:

1. One Man's Wilderness (Dick Proenneke)

2. Cache Lake Country

3. The Final Frontiersman (Heimo Korth)

Let's see 'em......
 
Horace Kepheart.......... Camping and Woodcraft

Mors Kochanski........ Bushcraft

Bradford Angier....... How to Stay Alive in the Woods.
 
OK Here's my 3

US Air Force Survival training manual (The big one)

Hatchet, Gary Paulsen (Kids) - (Other titles by author not so great)

Farnhams Freehold, Robert Heinlein - (Survival novel)

Give me a few hours and I will probably change this list. Joe
 
Edible wild plants of middle and eastern US

Medicinal wild plants of middle and eastern US

I dont have a third yet, those two are pretty coold though.
 
mors kochanski is a given...don't discount cody lundin's books too especially the "when all hell breaks loose". i've passed by it for months on the bookstore but decided to flip through it recently. talk about not judging a book by it's cover! he's got the urban survival theme covered too and he goes into the biological why's too, not just the how to's.
 
ksquared said:
Glad to see someone backing me up on One Mans Wilderness. Dick was the man!
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Don't get me wrong cause I love dick and what he accomplished up there , it shows what you can do with a stash of cash a camera and a market for the photos and a bush plane.

Kephart first the Angiers and Meyers.
 
My Top 3:

1. Wildwood Wisdom by Ellsworth Jaeger
2. Bushcraft by Richard Graves
3. Essential Bushcraft by Ray Mears

These three, along with Kochanski's Bushcraft, and Greg Davenport's Wilderness Survival are the books I gift to folks I meet who are just getting into the survival/outdoor skills.

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98.6 Degrees,The art of keeping your ass alive: Best general survival.
The way of the scout : Best for motivation.
Edible and medicinal plants of canada: Best for learning about plants in my location.

I have many other books on plants, survival, location finding and tracking etc so to pick 3 is very hard !
 
Thanks for sharing......Looks like Kepharts Camping and Woodcraft will be the next addition to my outdoor library.....
 
ksquared said:
Thanks for sharing......Looks like Kepharts Camping and Woodcraft will be the next addition to my outdoor library.....
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I have read a lot of books regarding the outdoors. Kepharts is one of the best.

I'm not talking about "survival" here. I'm talking about heading out and being comfortable.

Want to read an un-comfortable book, read about Aron Ralston "Between a Rock and a Hard place".

Great thread BTW:thumbup:
 
MoldyJoe said:
OK Here's my 3

US Air Force Survival training manual (The big one)

Hatchet, Gary Paulsen (Kids) - (Other titles by author not so great)

Farnhams Freehold, Robert Heinlein - (Survival novel)

Give me a few hours and I will probably change this list. Joe
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Would that be "United States Air Force Search and Rescue Survival Training: Af Regulation 64-4"? http://www.amazon.com/United-States-Search-Survival-Training/dp/1586637223
It's the most comprehensive book I've seen, and a good one to have in your vehicle.

If so, I would have the same list... but it still needs the SAS Survival Guide http://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-...=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1299572945&sr=1-5

Yes, that's 4 books... but they're all in my top 3.
 
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