Favourite Bushcraft/Survival fiction books and films

[rik_uk3]

Apart from reading and watching Bushcraft related books and TV programmes, DVDs etc, what are your favourite fiction books or films/TV, where your skills may help if in that situation?

I'll kick off with a couple

All the Mad Max movies
Day of the Triffids (book much more than film)
BBC "Survivors" series 1,2 and 3
Lord of the flies (book and original film)
Robinson Crusoe
The Day After Tomorrow
The Omega Man
and more

I picked up the BBC Survivors a week or so ago, not seen the series since the late 70's, still good stuff

 

[JonnyP]

Apart from reading and watching Bushcraft related books and TV programmes, DVDs etc, what are your favourite fiction books or films/TV, where your skills may help if in that situation?

I'll kick off with a couple

All the Mad Max movies
Day of the Triffids (book much more than film)
BBC "Survivors" series 1,2 and 3
Lord of the flies (book and original film)
Robinson Crusoe
The Day After Tomorrow
The Omega Man
and more

I picked up the BBC Survivors a week or so ago, not seen the series since the late 70's, still good stuff

I am wondering how your bushcraft skills would help you on the day of the triffids, would you whittle a spoon out of one with your sak.............

 

[rik_uk3]

Jon, the book is really great, they live on a farm for several years, your skills would be handy

 

[JonnyP]

Jon, the book is really great, they live on a farm for several years, your skills would be handy

I bet it is, the books are nearly always better than the films and the film was good I seem to remember, cor, it was a long time ago...........

 

[JohnC]

War of the Worlds (the original book)
The Kraken wakes
War Day

Some a bit "postwar" but the elements of preparedness and self reliance are well made.

 

[jonglow]

the edge dam cool film good survival ideas too mind you i wouldn't take on a bear with a pointy stick

 

[miniac]

Last of the mohicans would be my choice of film.

 

[rik_uk3]

Its on tonight great film

 

[Zodiak]

Not terribly bushcraft but I really liked "Grey Owl" I thought that it had a terrific sense of wilderness vs town

 

[rik_uk3]

You can download some good ebooks for free, like Shakleton's South
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shackleton/ernest/ bloody hard men

Look here
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

Download the Lewis and Clark "First across the continent" here in plain text or download microsoft reader for a version which includes any images in this book
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbi...4-5-6++1901+&query=lewis+and+clark&id=BroFirs

 

[rik_uk3]

"Farthest North" Fridtjof Namsen

 

[Millbilly]

Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver.

Its actually a childrens book, but i read it recently and found it quite entertaining, i hadnt worked out it was for "young adults" till i saw it in a book shop a while after i read it

A lot of fun

 

[jasons]

nacho libre got some bushcraft in it and its verry funny you have to see this film

 

[rik_uk3]

The Coral Island, great read

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

28 days later, not bushcraft, but a good survival film

 

[leon-b]

i love dances with wolves, i think that the lives the plains indians live contain a lot of buscraft, there raw hide tipis are cool aswell
leon

 

[Zodiak]

Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver.

Its actually a childrens book, but i read it recently and found it quite entertaining, i hadnt worked out it was for "young adults" till i saw it in a book shop a while after i read it

A lot of fun

My teenage son thought that was a terrific book too and he is nearly 18 Mind you he loves Wolves, (Anilmals not football team) and has pictures of them on his wall, PC desktop etc..

He thinks that there are several others in a series and was trying to get hold of them I will ask how he is getting on.

 

[East Scout]

Last of the Mohicans..
The New World.......
The Patriot....

I tend to like movies that speak of a better time and of depending on no one but your self...

ES

 

[pumbaa]

My teenage son thought that was a terrific book too and he is nearly 18 Mind you he loves Wolves, (Anilmals not football team) and has pictures of them on his wall, PC desktop etc..

He thinks that there are several others in a series and was trying to get hold of them I will ask how he is getting on.

I have to agree with these being brilliant books , i have only read her first 2 in this series , but there is a third out now called soul eater . Here is her fan site for the series of books .

The Clan

Pumbaa

 

[stuart f]

Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford plus Larry Dean Olsen was technical consultant for the film, great piece of cinematography,a must see.