Best of
Survival

1981

Follow the River


James Alexander Thom - 1981
    For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her people.

Reader's Digest Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills


Reader's Digest Association - 1981
    This how-to, user-friendly guide teaches self-sufficiency-covering all of life's essentials: shelter; alternative energy sources; growing and preserving food; home crafts; directions for making herbal remedies; and even home-grown entertainment.

Death March: The Survivors of Bataan


Donald Knox - 1981
    Photographs and maps.

The Morrow Guide to Knots: For Sailing, Fishing, Camping, Climbing


Mario Bigon - 1981
    Each photo captures the way you see the knot as you make it. And when two or more ropes are involved, they are color coded to help you clearly tell them apart.Filled with more than 600 photographs, this convenient, compact guide also includes a section on decorative knots, a cross-reference list of the many applications of knots, and a detailed glossary.

The Island Keeper


Harry Mazer - 1981
    But when she finally decides to return home, her canoe has been destroyed, and she faces the ultimate challenge in surviving the Canadian winter.

Four Against the Wilderness: The True Story of a Father & His Three Teenage Children Shipwrecked Off the Coast of Alaska in Winter


Elmo Wortman - 1981
    Book by Elmo Wortman

A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand


Andrew Crowe - 1981
    The book, now in its 24th printing, is "based on the experiences of the author whose interest in the subject lead him to spend 10 days in the bush in February 1974 without any food supplies... [It] has deservedly become an enduring classic from an author who is fast becoming one of our most prolific writers on native plants."Mike Oates, Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture"The story of how he was inspired to write the book is almost as intriguing as the revelations about his 190 chosen plants. Suffice to say, it involved some hungry, testing times in the wild and, at the very least, a couple of knowledgeable mentors... a possible life-saver."Weekend Gardener, Issue 152, 2004.As Brando Yelavich of Wildboy fame (Penguin 2015) explains: "armed with a crossbow, a copy of Andrew Crowe’s Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand and a 35kg pack loaded with the essentials of survival, [he] headed off... to become the first person to successfully circumnavigate New Zealand’s rugged coastline on foot." The survival manual he took for this impressive adventure is a guide to New Zealand's native edible plants, that describes over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds, giving detailed information on which part is edible and when, how plants have been utilised, particularly by Maori, their nutritional value, and where they can be found.

In the Ruins of the Reich


Douglas Botting - 1981
    Botting concentrates on the defining events that took place in the period between the collapse of the Third Reich and the foundation of the new Germanys to create the prevailing atmosphere of a most unusual and little-charted time in history. This was a period when four of the strongest industrial nations to emerge from World War Two attempted to work together to govern the once strong Germany, now prostate, impoverished and devastated by war and defeat. Telling the story of the dynamics between occupiers and occupied, the crimes perpetrated by both and the Imperial tendencies of the occupiers, Botting shows that the plan to bring democracy to Germany was far from flawless or straightforward. Timely republication of a classic book on a fascinating but often overlooked period in the history of the Second World War. Published to Coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War II. 'Graphic and moving...the Germans paid a frightful price for their sins of conquest' Desmond Albrow, Sunday Telegraph

116 Wing Tsun Dummy Techniques as Demonstrated by Grandmaster Yip Man


Yip Chun - 1981
    This is an awesome book for those who study the Chinese Art of Wing Tsun. 130 pages filled with easy to follow photos and as well a poster that folds out for you to follow. The techniques are performed by the Master himself Yip Man so what you will learn is the same basics as Bruce Lee learnt fom the him.

Help Me Remember Help Me Forget


Robert Sadler - 1981
    The true story of a child torn between love and hate, who grew up to know a love so powerful, it erased the nightmare of his past.