whats a good survival novel or movies?

Harold And Kumar Go To Whitecastles :D


No but really how about Robinson Crusoe, a true classic.
 
Will Hobbs writes some great survival books. Far North, Crosing the wire, Wild man Island I just read it very good. He has some other ones too. They remind me of some
of the books Gary Paulson books.
Bryan
 
Robert A. Heinlein's "Tunnel In The Sky" is a great survival read.

In the future, a group of high school student's has to pass a final exam in their Advanced Survival Class by being dropped off on a habitable but unsettled planet.

Their goal is to survive for a week with only minimal survival gear. Things go terribly wrong in a short amount of time. The wildlife is much more dangerous than expected and it truly becomes a story of fighting to survive. The futuristic setting makes it interesting. Survival on another planet with unknown environments puts a whole new twist on things. This is a classic.
 
Survival Quest w/ lance hendrickson

book, The Road, awesome tale of a man and his sonafter a TEOTEAWKI situation.

book, Lucifurs Hammer, great book about a comet hitting the earth. autor goes into detail about how people and groups survive and try to group together in units.

movie, The Day After, after a nuke war.


- Eric
 
rickppoole said:
Robert A. Heinlein's "Tunnel In The Sky" is a great survival read.

In the future, a group of high school student's has to pass a final exam in their Advanced Survival Class by being dropped off on a habitable but unsettled planet.

Their goal is to survive for a week with only minimal survival gear. Things go terribly wrong in a short amount of time. The wildlife is much more dangerous than expected and it truly becomes a story of fighting to survive. The futuristic setting makes it interesting. Survival on another planet with unknown environments puts a whole new twist on things. This is a classic.
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Watch out for stbors! CJ
 
Lucifer's Hammer was pretty good -- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Raven's Prey by an old Alaskan Sourdough named Slim Randles also good.

The Terror, by Dan Simmons has some interesting insight into Inuit type living and survival...about 7/8 ths to the back of the book...a good bibliography to it though.

All of the Jean Auel...Clan of the Cave Bear series have insights into primitive living and survival skills.
 
ivan51 said:
Rescue Dawn was a perty good movie. i kinda gritted my teeth when they got rid of there guns
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recently saw rescue dawn. i thought it was great.

i thought the same thing regarding the guns, but after some thought, it made sense.
 
Never Cry Wolf. Read the book, see the movie. A researcher gets trapped in the arctic and survives by eating what the wolves ate. Although slightly different, both stories are worth experiencing.

"Antarctica" A Japanese documentary about a sled dog team abandoned in the antarctic, and what their journey might have been. It is the story that Disneys "eight Below" was based on. NOT a Disney film.
 
Sorry, RB, maybe if I didn't ude my own name. That was dumb of me...
Another vote for r crusoe and never cry wolf, but most of what has been mentioned is great reading, plus lots of new ones to check out.
 
One of my favourites has to be "The Fast Runner' (Atanarjuat), based on an Inuit legend of jealousy, betrayal, and survival. It was filmed near Igloolik, Nunavut and was made by and stars solely Inuit people and is filmed in the Inuktitut language (subtitled in English).

Trying to describe the Canadian Arctic landscape to someone who has never been there is difficult at best, and my photos never do it justice, I tell anyone who is curious about the Arctic to watch this movie as the cinematography is stunning and does great job at capturing the true essence of it.
 
Stobor or Dopey Joes always seemed to be a good reminder that just because something doesn't bite you today doesn't mean it won't bite you tomorrow.
 
Another vote for the Gary Paulsen collections. At least read Hatchet and Brian's Winter. Those two right after the other is a great read. I don't know about survival, but the movie Apocalypto was pretty cool, they used ancient weapons and knives :D. The movie The Bear was also fun to watch. They use knives, guns, and the main characters are trappers. If you want something funny to watch that has to do with the great outdoors, watch Almost Heroes with chris farly.
 
Books:
Life of Pi
In the Heart of the Sea: The epic true story of Moby Dick

Movies:
The Flight of the Phoenix (Original version)
Lifeboat
Ice Cold in Alex

I strongly recommend the books, both great reads.

Chinpo
 
verbal213 said:
I was young when I read the book and the movie pretty old also but I always have liked My Side of the Mountain
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I loved that book too. I must have read it ten times when I was a kid; it started my facination with the outdoors. It often gets confused with the book about a female skier that has the same title, but if anyone looks for it, it is about a young boy who runs away from home to live in the woods.
 
Novels? Deliverance and To the White Sea by James Dickey. Yeah, that Deliverance. The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Movies? The Edge I guess, entertaining enough. I loved Castaway.

I mostly read about stuff that actually happened. If you enjoy that I recommend:

Adrift by Steven Callahan
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Alive by Piers Paul Reid
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
 
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