Wilderness Survival: Books and Movies

Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her kid brother, Cody, are staying with their uncle Neal, an animal rescuer for a shelter called Jackie's Wild Seattle. When Neal is hurt, Shannon steps in, putting herself in danger to save the animals.

In My Side of the Mountain Sam leaves home to fend for himself in the Catskill Mountains of New York. In the sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Sam's sister has joined him, and his falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer. Frightful's Mountain is written from the perspective of the falcon, and follows her efforts to learn to depend on her own instincts in a world crawling with dangers.

In a not-too-distant future, the USA has been replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcast throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally.

This is the classic adventure story of a man marooned on an island for nearly 30 years. A young man in Britain, torn between his safe home and his hunger for adventure, breaks away from his loving father and sails away into the unknown. After a series of harrowing escapes, he's shipwrecked on a desert island.

The story of a 12-year old girl who lives alone on a Pacific island after she leaps from a rescue ship. Isolated on the island for 18 years, Karana forages for food, builds weapons to fight predators, clothes herself in a feathered skirt, and finds strength and peace in her seclusion.

14-year-old Andy Galloway, kayaks his way through an Alaskan strait and ends up on Admiralty Island on a quest inspired by the death of his archeologist father.

In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies.

Chuck Noland is a workaholic Federal Express engineer whose plane goes down over the South Seas, leaving him stranded alone on the proverbial desert island for four years

A nuclear mushroom cloud suddenly appears on the horizon, plunging the residents of a small, peaceful Kansas town into chaos, leaving them completely isolated and wondering if they're the only Americans left alive.

The shipwrecked Robinsons make a new home and life for themselves as the sole human occupants of an island swarming with animal life, including elephants, ostriches, and tigers.

Around 1850, ex-soldier Johnson decides that he would rather live alone as a mountain man in Colorado than deal with society's constraints. After a series of setbacks, he meets grizzled mountain veteran Bear Claws, who teaches him how to survive.

A pair of teens head into the Rockies as part of a course in survival and end up having to use all of their skills to survive when they find themselves hunted by a pack of crazed mercenaries.

Robinson Crusoe (Brosnan) is an adventurer who hopes to find fame and fortune on the high seas, but a fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island.

"This is without doubt the best training guide for real primitive living skills" -- Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly

These experts help teach the skills that have served humanity for millennia: fire-making, camp cooking, basket weaving, pottery making, animal tracking, and much more.

Organized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving fire, building pit shelters, toolmaking, stoneboiling cookery, and trapping and hunting animals with handmade tools and weapons.

Newly updated to reflect the latest in survival knowledge and technology, the internationally bestselling SAS Survival Handbook is the definitive resource for all campers, hikers, and outdoor adventurers.

This guide covers everything needed to know to make it in tough terrain and tense situations, from the psychology of survival and overcoming fear to building a shelter and making it through a natural disaster. Every kind of environment is covered.

Survival Wisdom & Know-How is the most complete, all-in-one volume on every aspect of outdoor adventure and survival ever, from orienteering to campfire cooking to ice climbing and beyond.

"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer.