 | Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance by Kenneth Kamler
Buy used from: $3.99 Excellent book divided into the various environments one may have to endure. Great reading.
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 | The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $9.95 The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life - maybe. While I didn't find a lot of science I did enjoy the book.
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 | Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive by Les Stroud
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.22 If you are a fan of his show, you will like this book. It is ambitious and well written.
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 | Extreme Encounters: How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado, and Dozens of Other Unpleasant Experiences-- by Greg Emmanuel
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.01 Written by a journalist, this is an excellent accounting of various life and death situations. Great writing.
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 | Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.99 Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. I enjoyed this books indepth look at why some live and others perish. Very interesting.
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 | High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) by Chris Warner
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $13.30 Not so much a survival tome as a book that teaches the importance of leadership on the mountain and in the board room. Great book.
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 | The Crystal Horizon: Everest - The First Solo Ascent by Reinhold Messner
Buy new: $24.70 / Used from: $24.99 Excellent insight from the egotisical mind of the greatest mountaineer to ever live. There are dozens of survival related gold in this meandering book.
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 | US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76 by Department of Defense
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $22.11 Good old FM 21-76. A classic and must read for those of the survival mindset. However, a word of caution. You don't have to pay for this book. You can download it for free on several websites as it is owned by us, the taxpayer.
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 | Wingtips with Spurs by Michael L. Gooch
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $18.16 Written on a plethora of various topics, it might not help you survive in the wilderness but it is a survival manual for the workplace.
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 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.27 An excellent bestseller that warns of over confidence and hubris in the struggle to survive. A page-turner if there ever was one.
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.20 Almost too sad to read. It contains a powerful lesson for the unskilled, unprepared, and unlucky.
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