What is a good non-fiction survival/adventure book?

[Excelsior]

In the spirit of PCMarines recent thread, I created this one.

So..any recommendations?

 

[bradruth]

The Worst-Case Scenerio Handbook is interesting.

 

[StevenYoo]

Band of Brothers?

 

[Queasy]

Two of my favorite about a Vietnam Marine Sniper:

Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills

Silernt Warrier

 

[911paramedic]

Into Thin Air.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Into Thin Air.

That was my thought.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills

2nded

 

[DaveSimmons]

I read this one as a kid:

Seven Came Through - by Edward V. Rickenbacker

Ocean plane crash survival story (21 days at sea) by WW1 flying ace, while touring the front lines during WW2.

 

[ScottMac]

"On Wings of Eagles."

The book is about the escape of EDS employees from Iran during the Islamic Revolution. This happened just after the revolutionary forces captured the US embassy and held Americans hostage.

Ross Perrot owned EDS at the time and funded a private group to infiltrate Iran to get the trapped EDS employees out. The State department was dragging their feet, so he put together his own army to get the job done.

It's a great story, very exciting.

Regardless of your opinion on his politics, you have to respect Perrot's dedication to his employees.


FWIW

Scott

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon

Originally posted by: Queasy
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills

2nded

Definitely a good read, I couldn't put it down after I bought it.

 

[GasX]

Into The Breach: A year In The Life of EMS

That Others May Live - true stories of the Air Force Pararescue unit

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

If your into hunting or a gun-nut.

Hell I was There by Elmer Keith, father of the 44Mag. Quite a bit of
dangerous game hunting content.

 

[Nanotech]

Razors Edge (1944) classic by W(illiam) Somerset Maugham

about a spiritual quest, was made into film two times. "This book consists of my recollections of a man with whom I was thrown into close contact only at long intervals, and I have little knowledge of what happened to him in between," Maugham wrote in the beginning of the story. "I have invented nothing." Maugham tells of a young American veteran who moves through superbly described settings: Italy, London, the Riviera, Montparnasse.

Dove by ???

Its true story about a 15 year old boy who talks his parents into allowing him to drop out of school so that he can be the first to sail around the world in a 22 foot sail boat. Starts in California and his adventures are documented from there. Its a good, easy read, but much of it is exerpts from his journalling which takes some getting use to.

 

[Nanotech]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Into Thin Air.

That's another good one I have read. The other two I suggested read much quicker.

 

[GBRudy16]

The Army survival manual is good. Also some of the older 'bush' books are enjoyable as to how to survive.

 

[DaveSimmons]

A friend recommend this to me but I haven't read it yet:

"Endurance" by Alfred Lansing -
Ernest Shackleton led a failed Antarctica expedition in 1914 that resulted in an amazing tale of survival by Shackleton
and 27 of his men