favourite books

[falling rain]

So which books are amongst your favourites.
These are some of mine in no particular order

Bushcraft - Mors Kochanski
North Atlantic Seafood - Alan Davidson
Deep survival - Laurence Gonzales
Into the wild - Jon Krakauer
Cache lake country - John J Rowlands
Tales from an empty cabin - Gray owl
Wildflowers of Britain and Ireland - Readers digest
Flora brittanica - Richard Mabey
The long walk - Slavomir Rawicz
Ghosts of Everest - Jochen Hemleb et al
Cold Burial - Clive powell - Williams
Survive the savage sea - Dougal robertson

It's actually quite hard because I've enjoyed so many, but these ones spring to mind fo now

 

[Gravo]

"The River Why" by David James Duncan and anything by Magnus Mills.

 

[Jackdaw]

Hardy Boys Survival Handbook. Don't laugh, it was my bible when I was a kid. Then I joined the Army and got to do it all and get paid. Fantastic boys book to fire the imagination.

 

[jamesoconnor]

ive just finished this book and its brilliant, what a life this man has had!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-7334901-1622204

regards
james

 

[CLEM]

Brendon Chase by BB.

Perhaps we should/could have a recomended reading section on BCUK.

 

[CLEM]

ive just finished this book and its brilliant, what a life this man has had!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-7334901-1622204

regards
james

That sounds a great read! I fancy getting that meself.

 

[fred gordon]

I think I would have to go with, Ray Mears taken as a given, of course;;
Into the Great Solitude - Robert Perkins
Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez
Song of the Paddle - Bill Mason
Fire in the Bones - James Raffin (Biography of Bill Mason)
Voyageurs - Margaret Elphinstone (Novel about the Voyageurs)
Walden - Henry D. Thoreau

 

[jamesoconnor]

That sounds a great read! I fancy getting that meself.

i would easily recommend this one. also if any of you are going to the scottish meet next month i can give you my copy to read as my wife hates it when i leave books around. just let me know and i'll bring it along.

regards
james

 

[jasons]

i have just got my hands on a great book primitive living self sufficiency and survival skills by thomas j. elpel.

 

[baggins]

Definatley go with Arctic Dreams,best book ever written, i've lost count of the number of times i've read it. Also on my fav list are The good life (up the yukon without a paddle) by Dorian Amos and the winter wilderness companion by G and A Conover. Supurb reads, the lot.

 

[Geo.]

Just finished reading "Voyageur" by Brit writer, Robert Twigger. Excellent.
He copied a journey made by a Scot (McKenzie) in the 1800's - across the Canadian Rockies in a birchbark canoe, mainly against the river flows, paddling, hauling, portaging.
Only successful attempt since McKenzie did it.
An entertaining writer.

Also enjoyed "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer, story of Chris McCandless's fatal experience with the wilderness. I think they're actually making a movie out of that one - should be interesting, it was a kind of haunting sort of story.
His death was due entirely to his own mistakes and could easily have been avoided.
George.