books about: survival

books about: survival

books:

Survival

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Max Brooks

Three Rivers Press, 2003

"Exellent read"
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks is amazing. It has humor, but is totally serious the entire length of the book. I feel that if a Zombie Outbreak happens anytime soon I will be better prepared having read mentioned book. A must for Zombie, Horror, and Survival ...

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Scholastic Press, 2008

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
This book was amazing! I finished it in 2 days and couldn't put it down for one minute. You never stop needing to know what happens next.

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Anchor, 2007

Great book for adventurous souls
I read this book years ago and picked it up again recently. What a great read! It explores youthful restlessness and a describes very accurately the desire many of us have to break free from the shackles of society and "live" for a little while. This feeling is a ...

Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival

Jack A. Spigarelli

Cross-Current Pub., 2002

Packed full of information - a valued addition to any preparedness library
This is a very insightful and well constructed book. There is a TON of information. It does lean heavily on food storage, dedicating nearly 2/3 of its 315 pages to various facets of food (production, preservation, storage). The remaining 100+ pages discuss things ...

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

Steve Solomon

New Society Publishers, 2006

Detailed, Valuable Advice
Gardening When It Counts is truly a book for our times. There's already a well-deserved buzz about this book among home gardeners I know. For one thing, it firmly refutes the supposed advantages of mulch gardening. In the burgeoning nationwide return to growing our own ...

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Great Read!!!
A Definite page turner! Couldn't sleep till i was done reading it. So poignantly written. It made me take a look at myself and humanity! Thanks Ishmael but I wish he would have talked about how he adjusted in the US. All the same, a must read!

The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

Cormac McCarthy

Vintage Books, 2007

Simply Put, A Masterpiece
Post apocalyptic fiction is my favorite genre. I can safely say that I've read them all... though I'm always on the hunt for ones I might have missed. I read "The Road" well over a year ago and had subsequently gotten the audio book version for work. Both very ...

When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the ...

Matthew Stein

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008

Preparing for "CHAOS" in the United States.
This manual guides one toward survival, when technology fails.....and it will, it's only a matter of time now. It has already begun. Most people cannot hunt, grow food, or recognize anything growing in the wild that would help them survive, if they needed to. The ...

SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea

John Lofty Wiseman

Collins, 2004

Long book, short review.
I dont wanna write a book explaining this thing, but, even if youre just a part time backpacker, hiker or camper, this is a book you want to invest in. Lots of good information on lots of areas in the world. There is some stuff in here that should be common knowledge, ...

The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls (American Girl Library)

Valorie Schaefer

American Girl, 1998

Where Was This Book When I Was Growing Up?
The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls Where was this book when I was growing up? What a great book for girls. As a mother of three girls and a grandmother of four girls, I give thumbs up to The Care & Keeping of You. I began reading this book ...

The Feelings Book: The Care & Keeping of Your Emotions (American Girl)

Dr. Lynda Madison

American Girl Publishing Inc, 2002

Great Book
I bought this book for my eight year old daughter who has always been very emotional. She loves it. It has really helped her to understand why she feels the way she does sometimes. Thanks.

SAS Survival Guide Handbook (Collins Gem)

John 'lofty' Wiseman

Collins, 2006

Good as a pocket survival guide.
This book is great. It tells you basic needs for survival like how to find water, make shelter and purify water. It is just a great book. If you frequently travel to different places like jungles or forests and you want to know how to survive in the wild if you get ...

Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse: A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future (Expanded and Updated 33 ...

James Wesley Rawles

Xlibris Corporation, 2006

TEOTWAWKI
Much has been written about this book, both pro and con, over the years. What it is, is an excellent survival handbook, written in a very readable, fictional format. What it isn't, is a literary classic. I have heard people comment about it's lack of sophistication ...

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

Aladdin, 2006

Hatchet
Gary Paulsen's adventures of Brian are the only books my 15 year old son has ever ASKED me to buy for him. Apparently theyre a really good read.

What Is the What (Vintage)

Dave Eggers

Vintage, 2007

Heartbreaking and uplifting
This is, of course, the story of one of the Lost Boys of Sudan - Valentino Atchak Deng. The preface makes explicit that "many of the passages are fictional" and "the result is called a novel." Given the liberties (or outright fabrications) that pass for memoirs these ...