SURVIVAL STORIES
Researching Survival Skills
A great way to learn about survival skills (technical, mental, and emotional) is to read real survival stories, primitive survival books and survival research.
These resources have been of particular use to us:
Deep Survival,
by Lawrence Gonzales
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—And Why,
by Amanda Ripley
Miracle in the Andes,
by Nando Parado
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea,
by Steve Callahan
Man’s search for meaning,
by Viktor Frankl
Survival Psychology,
by John Leach
Endurance,
by Alfred Lansing
The Sheltering Desert,
by Henno Martin
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