what survival books would you recommend?

Basic Wilderness Survival Skills - Bradford Angier

The complete Book of Outdoor Survival - J. Wayne Fears
 
ajcz said:
Basic Wilderness Survival Skills - Bradford Angier

The complete Book of Outdoor Survival - J. Wayne Fears
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Brad Angier's books started it all for me. as a young boy reading his books filled me with wonder and a yearning for the outdoors that that has never died.His books helped me learn the respect of all things nature has provided, a love for reading and Randall Made Knives. I've recently heard of some controversy about some of the information in his books.Be that as it may.His books started my life on a good path and for that I am forever greatful.
 
Survival skills of the North American Indians, By Peter Goodchild. The local Indians Where I live, Lived off the land for thousands of years. In my studies of wilderness survival skills, I have learned new respect for the Indians. It`s sad that a lot of these skills are being lost, What will they do when Mcdonalds and wall-mart close?
 
SAS- am in the process of reading for the first time. I always paged through it, but now I am seriously reading it page by page. I know I won't remember everything, but its progress. I also find that a lot of stuff I already know, but that's ok. Good book. Very well covered.
Tom browns wilderness survival-read it last summer. Good book. more specialized.
Bushcraft-read it twice. More specialized.

Also, use the net to increase your knowledge.

And, I recommend Ron Hood's videos.

Take care,
Scottman
 
I have the following that were given to me in PDF format. Someone emailed them to me....<cough>.

A Case for Survival Deep Underground (H. L. Brode 1961)
Desert Emergency Survival Basics (Jack Purcell 2003)
The Complete Outdoorsma's Handbook (Jerome J. Knap 1976)
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht 1999)
SAS Survival Guide
US Army Survival Manual
 
One thing about the SAS manual: though I love it for many things, it's got some drastic limitations in its "what plants can you eat" department, at least for the desert U.S. If I remember correctly, it omitted some of the big staple foods that formed major percentages of the local Indians' diets, and maybe also misidentified plants as edible or poisonous when the opposite was true. My bottom line: get a local-specific plant guide before you trust what a guy was taught in England about what you can and cannot eat in Arizona. Overall, though, I like the book a lot--and have copies on my shelf at home and in EACH of our vehicles.
 
Lots of great books mentioned.

Another of Angier’s books: How to Stay Alive In The Woods.

Survival:A Manual That Could Save Your Life by Chris and Gretchen Janowsky. These folks really knew their stuff, and taught outdoors-people and military troops about it up here.
 
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