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Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
19-year-old Erin travels across Iceland, Greenland and Canada to begin her experiment: living in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, all the while making a documentary to record how survivalism and society's accepted personal freedom boundaries differ between the sexes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Part-time treasure hunter Daniel Sturges's secret assignment was simple--find a wrecked WWII B-17 and recover the artifacts inside. But now he's stranded with fellow crash survivor Cassie Edmunds, who's searching for the same plane, and they'll have to trust one another with their lives. With temperatures falling in treacherous terrain, will they risk everything for the missing wreckage or discover something more valuable between them? That is, if...
65) Surviving at sea
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When faced with nature's life and death circumstances, how would you respond? Survival stories recounts true stories of people overcoming adversity and surviving against the odds. Readers will learn which decisions survivors made that led to their rescues as well as tips and tricks on how to survive in similar situations."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Murray Learning
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Survival Manual gives essential, practical advice for handling situations that weren't part of the plan and can quickly escalate. It starts with ten life-saving tips then outlines the crucial components for staying alive, starting with water, food and shelter. Covering every possible scenario, from basic survival skills to advanced insight into surviving in hostile conditions, this is the ultimate survival guide for anyone who spends any time...
Author
Publisher
Falcon Guides
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Backpacker The Survival Hacker's Handbook provides detailed instruction on how to use everyday items to survive in extraordinary circumstances. Sure, the quirk is here. For instance, learn how to make a fishhook out of a beer can, start a fire with hand sanitizer, or purify water with bleach. But it goes beyond the quirk to identify real solutions for real scenarios--with real items you carry with you. The book includes useful tips and tricks from...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford-adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River-likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford decides to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. His mission: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing-no food, water, or even clothing-except...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Dahlia Weathersby's sister disappears on what should have been a simple day hike, Dahlia immediately heads deep into the Colorado Rockies to find her. Knowing she'll never survive the mountains alone, she convinces the local hermit -- adorably grouchy survival expert Winston Dane -- to be her guide. All it takes is a good helping of Dahlia's charm...and just the teeniest bit of blackmail...before she's got all six-foot-something of him wrapped...
72) Girl underwater
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team; in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Now a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. Perfect, really. That all changes when Avery's red-eye home for Thanksgiving...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From internationally acclaimed eco-warrior and environmentalist-and the subject of recent New York Times, The Guardian, and Outside magazine profiles-Lynx Vilden comes a stunning debut memoir on how to return to and nurture the Earth and ultimately, ourselves"--
Author
Series
Wilder boys volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Wilder Boys are excited to be spending part of their summer at a wilderness camp. Jake is going to be working as an assistant counselor, and Taylor will be in his cabin. Along with the rest of their group, they'll spend two weeks honing their skills and learning to work together before a multiday trek traversing woodland, mountain, and desert terrain during a team-based competition. But no amount of training could have prepared them for what...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Admired by millions as the star of Man vs. Wild and the acclaimed NGC series Running Wild, global adventurer Bear Grylls has explored places few would dare to go. Now, he shares time-honored lessons for leading an adventurous life through stories drawn from his personal experiences, as well as encounters with a diverse group of celebrities who have participated in his wildly popular television shows. In these inspiring pages, Grylls chronicles his...
76) The Texan
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 2
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
77) Alabama moon
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life. I could trap my own food and make my own clothes. I could find my way by the stars and make fire in the rain. Pap said he even figured I could whip somebody three times my size. He wasn't worried about...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories. His name is synonymous with high-stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, beloved author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2012, c1995
Language
English
Description
The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. Cold-blooded murder seems right at home....the chill of the grave. A tidal wave breaks loose the ice under which a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight, and one of the team is "an assassin with a mission of his own."
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