Wow...yeah they don't make 'em like that anymore.
And I can't speak for Nell but I'd probably be off your wonder-woman list pretty quick if you met me in person ;-)
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Wow...yeah they don't make 'em like that anymore.
And I can't speak for Nell but I'd probably be off your wonder-woman list pretty quick if you met me in person ;-)
Gee, funny that nobody has mentioned the SAS Survival Guide yet! :rolleyes:
I recently read Tappan on Survival. It's quite a bit dated in the technology area (hard to beleive guns were ever that cheap, and he's complaining about thier cost!) and it's got that old "they're gonna nuke us any second now" cold war perspective, but as long as you keep in mind that it was written in the 70's, I still think Mel offers some good tips that are still applicable.
Has anyone here read The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook by Claire Wolfe? That's a good one.
Atlas Shrugged.
Trust me. You haven't seen his list.....
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This. And The Fountainhead.Quote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
i picked up The Adventures of Tom Sawyer again. last time i read it was in high school. i really like the book, so thought i give it another read.
Be John Galt or end up Eddie Willers. Great book.Quote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
I'm reading Where There's No Doctor.
I'm now reading the Zombie Survival Guide.....
I could use another copy if you still have it.
...of books that should be on your shelf: :cool2:
Man, I wish I'da kept my old Boy scout book.
I also have a very interesting book in PDF format which I think people would have to email me and I would have to send it by email for any to get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by explodingearth
The book is called "The $50 and Up Underground House Book" by Mike Oehler
I stayed almost two months with Mike O on his forty acre place in N Idaho in 1986 helping him plant a garden, cut, split and stack a year' worth of firewood and digging a fallout shelter in his larger $2,000 underground house.
Not sure if he is even alive anymore, maybe anyone near Bonners Ferry, Idaho knows?
So with what you all were saying I gathered a list on what books I'm looking at buying, here is my amazon list so far . .
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea by John Wiseman
SAS Survival Guide Handbook by John Wiseman
98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your *** Alive by Cody Lundin
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Primitive Wilderness Living & SurvivalSkills: Naked into the Wilderness by John McPherson
The Complete Tracker by Len McDougall
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Proenneke, Sam Keith
Camping & Wilderness Survival: The Ultimate Outdoors Book by Paul Tawrell
Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills by David Wescott
I also added the the film Alone in the Wilderness directed by Dick Proenneke.
I also created another list with Neil Gaiman, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and a few others. . . books like, The Sun Also Rises, Neverwhere: A Novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Call of the Wild, The Stand by Stephen King, and so on.
Any other I should add on to this list?
For what you are seeking I would add a few others that are more instructional/informational in nature. A few books on edible and medicinal plants, a book titled Back To Basics - A Complete Guide To Traditional Skills It covers buying and working land, generating your own energy, raising livestock, gardening, different skills that are useful.
Thanks crash I added a couple more books from what you saidQuote:
A few books on edible and medicinal plants
Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada, The Northwest by Janice Schofield Eaton
North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi by Orson K. Miller
A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson Field Guide Series) by Robert C. Stebbins
That's an excellent mushroom book, but I'd get a couple more if i were going to seriously try to ID and eat them. National Audubon Society has a "field guide to north american mushrooms", very good book. And, for your area or perhaps a little north of you, "Mushrooms Demystified" by David Arora is an excellent book. He has a few books I believe and most are focused in California.
Also, I'd look into a tree ID book. If you know your trees and their habitats it goes along way into finding shrooms, plants, animals, shelter, cordage, containers, fire starting material, food, etc. My tree books are all focused in or around Michigan.
Larry Dean Olsen has a book "outdoor survival skills". It has a Western USA focus. It's a pretty good book. I don't know that it teaches precise survival skills in detail, but the stories and insight he gives make it well worth reading.
Much thanks rwc, I've added . .
Trees of North America: A Guide to Field Identification by C. Frank Brockman
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms by Gary Lincoff
Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora
Nature of Southeast Alaska: A Guide to Plants, Animals, and Habitats by Robert H. Armstrong, Rita M. O'Clair
Alot of reading to do . . . :online2long: already 16 books.
I have the Tom Brown Jr. collection on Wilderness Survival, Tracking, and Plants. I also have my Ranger Handbook and the SF Survival Guide.
Currently reading "Through So Many Dangers the Memoir's of Robert Kirkland" he was a 42nd Highland Regiment Soldier throughout the French & Indian War and was even a captive, he tells of his survival for several weeks in wilderness of the Ohio Country.
Also the Journal of Major Robert Rogers is a great source for survival skills the old fashioned way.
Also I have Survival Skills of the North American Indians Second Edition by Peter Goodchild, a great read.
Also Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes by Margaret M. Wheat
and one of my favorites The Tracker's Field Guide: A Comprehensive Field Guide for Tracking in the United States by James C. Lowery
and Tactical Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Tracker by David Scott-Donelan.
Just a few of my collection and favorites.
Beo,
Dogman, You might like a book: Shadows on the Koyukuk. It is about the Huntington brothers, they were dog mushers. It has several survival events that are painful to read but documented. For any members who think there is a line as to what they would eat or do, it is a painful revealing account of suffering and hardship few have ever known.
Dogman, You might like a book: Shadows on the Koyukuk. It is about the Huntington brothers, they were dog mushers. It has several survival events that are painful to read but documented. For any members who think there is a line as to what they would eat or do, it is a painful revealing account of suffering and hardship few have ever known.
You might also like "The Final Frontiersman" by James Campbell
It is the story of Heimo Korth and His Family, who lives more remotely than any other person in Alaska" as one of only seven hunter-trappers with a permit to live in the 19.5-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Korth lives with his wife and two daughters 130 miles above the Arctic Circle.
You might also like "The Final Frontiersman" by James Campbell
It is the story of Heimo Korth and His Family, who lives more remotely than any other person in Alaska" as one of only seven hunter-trappers with a permit to live in the 19.5-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Korth lives with his wife and two daughters 130 miles above the Arctic Circle.
Other great books of that period: "Born on Snowshoes", by: Evelyn Berkland Shore.....a great read for women. She might have been the toughest human to ever live. Great read.
Many of the characters that Jack London fictionalized were real people who's factual accounts are in "Kantishna" by: Tom Walker (Lots of Dog Mushing in that book) It is the natural sequel to Burning Daylight
I just read this entire sticky...now when I blink my eyes I see the words:
"Army Field Manual"
Artic Homestead by Norma Cobb & Charles W Sasser
Mushing
My lead dog was a lesbian by Brian Patrick O'Donoghue
AAAA**** Yukon Alone By John Balzar " The worlds toughest adventure race" Great read
We've always used John Wiseman's "The SAS Survival Handbook". It has a lot more in it than the book issued to him in the military...that's for sure. We were told by a friend to get "How to Survive Anything, Anywhere" by Chris McNab...but honestly it's just a rip-off of Wiseman's book...and isn't remotely as detailed.
I went out a few weeks ago and got the Peterson Field Guides Edible Wild Plants for Eastern/Central North America by Lee Allen Peterson.
It's...okay. Lots of great information...no medicinal or VERY little. Most of the pictures of the plants are drawings...and as many of you know...that just doesn't cut it when you aren't sure what they look like. It's not a BAD purchase...I'm getting a lot of knowledge from it...but it's not the BEST purchase. I knew most of the plants listed...
I recently read The zombie survival guide by Max Brooks, There is actually a lot of good survival info in a fun read.
Yep!!! If I have one unrealistic fear...it would be a zombie attack!! (man...those things are gross, can run, and EAT YOU!! Who wouldn't find that to be a bit more than freaky??) I shall have to obtain this book for my library so I may be prepared for the inevitable attack! Thank you Welderguy! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by welderguy
Your welcome Trabitha
I finished a book by Joseph Boyden called Three Day Road
About two natives from Northern Ontario who go off to fight in WWI. Talks about some wild times in the trenches of the war and how they struggle with the paradoxes of the two worlds they are living in.
just picked up another " edible plants " book
my 2nd book from Lone Pine Publishing
GREAT COLOR PICTURES
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That is good to hear because I just ordered that book used off of Amazon for $5 shipped. Awhile back I downloaded various Marine/Navy/Army manuals covering a range of topics. I have not read any yet but seeing as how many of you say they are good starting points I think I will try and read a few this weekend.Quote:
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Anything by Ray Mears he is the King of Bushcraft IMHO
I agree +1Quote:
Originally Posted by sthrnstrong
I emailed John Branson a while back about the possibility of any more of Dick Proenneke's journals being published. Mr Branson was the editor of "More Readings From One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980".
I received his reply today:
I am looking forward to this volume coming out. :)Quote:
Hi Pete, there is a new volume of Richard's verbatim journals in the
offing. The manuscript is with the non-profit publisher Alaska Geographic
Association with a publication date in the summer of 2011. The title is:
RICHARD L. PROENNEKE OF TWIN LAKES, ALASKA, THE EARLY YEARS 1967-1973. The
book is 500 pages and very much like my first volume of edited Proenneke
Journals.
Thank you for your interest in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve and
Richard Proenneke.
John Branson
Park Historian
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle--reading right now
3 other books in waiting:
* Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
* Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
* Lights Out by David Crawford
After this, I'll be ready for some Grisham.
Ok, Benesse, how did you like Lucifer's Hammer? I am borrowing it from the library now, and I'm having a hard time with it. 100 pages into and it's just not holding my attention. Should I finish it, or start with something else?Quote:
Originally Posted by BENESSE
I have read Lights Out - good book. Entertaining and useful. I have Earth Abides on my waiting list at the library, but haven't heard of Alas, Babylon. Any good?
Thanks in advance!
Stick w/Lucifer's Hammer, A.
It is tedious at first, til you get through this comet observation stuff. Once TSHTF, it gets interesting fast.
I'm new to this forum.
My 'skill' is that I went cross-country by bicycle, twice (8800 miles total, a year and four months of camping total) and am preparing for my third trip.
I've been amassing a gigantic library of survival books and information. I will be bringing a netbook along with me and have rigged-up a solar panel charging system so that will be possible.
My library will be contained on two 32GB MicroSD cards.
Some books elude me, though. It's hard to get everything on PDF, DOC, MP4 etc.
However, in my months of searching I've found some solid sites which let me find stuff that I thought you guys might find interesting.
For PDF books I like http://www.pdf4me.net/
For hard-to-find PDF Books I like http://ebookee.org/ It will bring you to various sites to find hard to find things.
For really hard-to-find stuff I use http://www.4shared.com You wait 20 seconds to 5 minutes but it's worth it.
My favorite Torrent Search engine is http://torrentz.eu
Here's a good listing of various torrent search engines, though:
C:\Program Files\TopTorrentEngines\Torrent.htm
However, my favorite individual site is http://bitsnoop.com/
They tend to always have the book, have a short delay, no viruses and you just click the fourth link every time (no hunting for the link).
Well, got to go go work now. Thought those links might be helpful.