Which is a better book 98.6 or Wilderness evasion?

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I want to buy one of these books. Sometime down the road, I will probably get both. Michael Chesbro wrote wilderness evasion and Cotie wrote the other.
 
If you mean 98.6 by Cody Lundin, this is a great book and should be on everyones shelf that's into Survival stuff !!!!
 
That's a tough comparison, those books don't really have anything in common.

Cody Lundin's book 98.6 degrees, the art of keeping your a** alive is about how to survive for a short period of time until you are rescued.

Chesbro's book "Wilderness Evasion: A Guide To Hiding Out and Eluding Pursuit in Remote Areas" is about how not to get found, the exact opposite of Lundin's book.

98.6 is a great book.
 
I have both books and Last confederate is correct on all counts IMHO. 98.6 is a very good book and should be on your shelf.

FWIW,
KR
 
I borrowed 98.6 from my sister-in-law's husband last summer and haven't given it back yet. It's a very practical approach to surviving a short-term wilderness emergency.

I also recently borrowed from him Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. This is an absolutely fascinating and well-written book about the psychology of survival.
 
To be honest, my expectations for 98.6 degrees were set rather high given the reviews I read. It's a good book, and definitely worth getting, but don't go into it expecting to be blown away, or you might end up with a bad taste in your mouth like I got.
 
I posted this early before leaving the house. I missspelled Cody Lundin's name. That was the book I was referring to.

This deep survival book is interesting to me. I also found another on the survivor personailty by Al Siebert.

I am curious about traits of people who have survived might share.

What are some of the commonalities?
 
A lot of people are dissapointed after reading Lundins book because it gives you the bare facts that you need to survive the first few days.
It does not tell you how to make poison blow darts from frogs or deadfall traps for killing bears.....when reading some other Survival books it is often these useless facts that you remember and not the basics that you need !!!
 
PIT, I have pleanty of books on technique. I am interested in something beyond technique.
 
chrisaloia said:
PIT, I have pleanty of books on technique. I am interested in something beyond technique.
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Then you definitely would enjoy reading Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. Really an excellent read. Far more interesting than technique is the psychology. I could not recommend this book enough.


The wilderness evasion book is OK. The only reason I read it was to see how much information it had in relation to my military training and as a (poor) tracker what tricks he might be suggesting that people should use to evade searchers. Like I said the book is only OK. Nothing earth shattering in it at all.

DOC-CANADA , he talks about making hides to hide food and other things you might need. How to evade searchers, navigation by the stars etc. Nothing really unique.


KR
 
I think a lot of us have some mistaken presumptions about what a wilderness survival
book is all about - at least I did.

It took a while for it to get through my thick head that, for most people, survival is
something they do so that they can get rescued and get back to the real world.

However, some of us are actually looking for books that teach, not just how to survive,
but how to *thrive*.

Speaking of which, does anybody have this one?:

Primitive Wilderness Living and Survival Skills
 
chrisaloia said:
PIT, I have pleanty of books on technique. I am interested in something beyond technique.
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Chris,

I would seriously advise you to get " deep survival" by Laurence Gonzales. I've read it, and I'm very impressed with his observations and view on the survival mind. It's a book you really have to read.

Otherwise books from Greg Davenport and Tom Brown (technique) are good too.

CZ
 
98.6 should be required reading for every American before he/she leaves high school. However, 98.6 is NOT about living in the wilderness, but rather it is about how not to get in trouble in the wilderness and then if you do how to endure the ordeal until rescue arrives. Set your expectations accordingly.

Deep Survival is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read, but it's all about psychology. At best, it tries to steer people away from getting into trouble in the first place by describing the mental pitfalls that take people down the rabbit hole.

If you like Deep Survival, then you might want to check out Gavin De Becker's The Gift of Fear and Protecting the Gift. Both go into the psychology of survival, although his focus is on the urban problem of avoiding and escaping violent predators, mostly by paying attention to our sense of fear, which he argues is a kind of early warning radar system for trouble.
 
bulgron said:
98.6 should be required reading for every American before he/she leaves high school. However, 98.6 is NOT about living in the wilderness, but rather it is about how not to get in trouble in the wilderness and then if you do how to endure the ordeal until rescue arrives. Set your expectations accordingly.
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I agree! I regularly give it as a gift to friends.
 
kr1 said:
DOC-CANADA , he talks about making hides to hide food and other things you might need. How to evade searchers, navigation by the stars etc. Nothing really unique. KR
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Thanks kr1.

Does anybody have this book (Primitive Wilderness Living and Survival Skills)
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Excellent book. I highly recommend it. Like Stryker D I also have the original ten booklets.

Doc
 
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