Adventure Survival

[entropydog]

Hi Folks
Im looking for a book to read a derring-do tale of adventure and Survival, Fiction or non-fiction I don’t mind...Something to stir the imagination in a manly lost in the wilderness kind of way. Does anyone have any suggestions... Chuck in a few film suggestions too if you like but mostly looking for reading material....Call of the Wild type stuff.. Cheers

 

[Ex-member PaganBushcraft]

A very good book is The Heros of Telimark non- fiction and the book voted the best book of the century and milenium The Lord of the Rings I have read it 9 times now But my Favourite book is The Hobbit By J J R Tolkin a true adventure If you are going to read The Lord ofthe Rings read The Hobbit first as one story follows on from the other. Books by Wainwright are excellent.

 

[spud_23]

127 hours book and film gets my vote!

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[ocean1975]

Richard Proenneke.One mans wilderness,

 

[21st century pict]

The Cockleshell Heroes by C.E.Lucas Phillips. the book not the film.
As for films Jeramiah Johnson,
The Hunted.

 

[crowded-solitude]

joe simpsons touching the void, this game of ghosts and the beckoning silence all good.

and on the note of 127 hours Aron Ralston is on alone in the wild tonight on discovery will be interesting how he handles being on his own.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

The Year Long Day....by A.E. Maxwell & Ivar Ruud.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

If you like Call Of The Wild then J.London's White Fang is worth a read if you haven't done so already

 

[bb07]

Book: The Mad Trapper http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb...oks&field-keywords=mad+trapper&sprefix=mad+tr
Movie: Death Hunt

 

[sargey]

dangerous river by rm patterson, the best bushcraft book of all time!

cheers, and.

 

[BBRaptor]

A couple of good books in that vein, which I have read, are Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghindsberg and Call of the Wild by Guy Grieve, both non fiction.

 

[spandit]

I've just re-read Brendon Chase by BB and currently watching the TV Series

 

[Ex-member PaganBushcraft]

Good movie The last of the Dogmen

 

[forestwalker]

"Great Heart" by Davidsson and Rugge (the first cross-Labrador expeditions)
"Nunamiut; Among Alaska's Inland Eskimos" and "The Land of Feast and Famine" by Helge Ingstad
"The Long Walk" by Sławomir Rawicz -- if you don't mind the fact that it is almost certainly a lie

 

[SMARTY]

"Great Hearth" by Davidsson and Rugge (the first cross-Labrador expeditions)
"Nunamiut; Among Alaska's Inland Eskimos" and "The Land of Feast and Famine" by Helge Ingstad
"The Long Walk" by Sławomir Rawicz -- if you don't mind the fact that it is almost certainly a lie

Never proven to be a lie

 

[mountainm]

+1 for "touching the void"

 

[Paul72]

Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake (the book is deeper than the film)

If you don't mind military stuff Sniper One by Dan Mills is a brilliant read

 

[forestwalker]

Never proven to be a lie

No, not as such. But I am suspicious of the way the trip is described, and there has been claims that there are documents that claim that Rawicz was released as part of a general pardon.

 

[pauljm116]

Chris Ryan -The one that got away (taken with a pinch of salt but a good read all the same)
+1 for Guy Grieve - Call of the wild (good book, over a bit too quick for my liking)
+1 for Dan Mills - Sniper One - great book

Pretty much anything by Duncan Falconer (Ex-SBS), has the edge over McNab and Ryan if you like military books.

Just ordered Dorian Amos - up the yukon without a paddle.

 

[JoshS]

Man Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett.

Fantastic stories of hunting tigers and leopards in India, and Jim Corbett was a true naturalist.

Don't be put of by the great white hunter image.

He has had a national Park named after him. He ran a survival school as well!

One of my Heroes.