My question: "One of my high school boys loves non-fiction survival
stories. He just finished Alive and was very enthusiastic. I would
appreciate all suggestions, high school or adult level for more books of
this type to buy. It does my heart good when a student, especially a boy
says, "Do you have another book for me?"
The responses:
First thought is Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson.
'The Perfect Storm' by Sebastian Junger is amazing.
I also did a quick Google search and got a couple of good hits. One is
books on tape, but I'm sure you can find the print versions.
http://www.kcls.org/newya/survival.cfm
http://www.booksontape.com/search.cfm?category=R08&subject=SUR
Here's another.
http://www.sos.state.mo.us/wolfner/bibliographies/survivornonfiction.asp
Try: Into Thin Air or Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Also, Endurance
Shackelton's Legendary Expedition by Caroline Alexander; Left for Dead
and The Climb are also about Mt. Everest. There are a number of books on
the Donner Party.
Gary Paulsen's books come to mind
Try Krakauer's two books--Into thin air and Into the wild. They're not
exactly survival, but they are true stories of people and the
wilderness. He might also like The perfect storm.
I've just finished The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. Very exciting. When
I looked it up on amazon.com to make sure I was spelling the author's
name correctly, I found a list of other similar stories. You may want to
check there if you don't get enough suggestions.
into thin air
the donner party
Lost on a mountain in maine
The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian Thompson. About a bunch of teens who
are sent off to an exclusive boarding school by parents they have
disappointed in some petty way. Upon arrival, the kids are grouped
together and provided a menor and they spend a weekend in the
wiolderness camping. Five groups are actually students, but Group 6 is
special. Their parents have paid to have them killed, and their mentor
is the murderer. This year's hit man, however, gets to know the kids and
realizes that they have done nothing to desrve this--he was worse as a
kid. So, they live in the wilderness and survive as best they can while
trying to come up with a plan to stop the evil faculty at the school.
Try Into the WIld by Jon Krakauer
Lionheart: The Jesse Martin Story. This 17 year-old sailed around the
world unassisted from Australia and back - using no fossil fuels or
outside help of any kind.
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest -
Norgay.
A son's account of the greatest climber of all - his own father - who
was Sir Edmund Hilary's guide but got none of the credit.
I also recommend any title by Tristan Jones - a sailor- and there are
several
adventures.
Undaunted Courage: the Story of Lewis and Clark
There are the old standby titles: Kon-Tiki, Into Thin Air, The Endurance
story by Shackleton, Alone, Walking the Cherokee Trail, Prairie Earth,
Woodsong.
Here's a few off the top of my head:
The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Into Thin Air
Papillion
Endurance:Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
A Child Called "It"
Apollo 13
How about the Donner Party and maybe the following titles:
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Not Without My Daughter, The Perfect
Storm, Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, Adrift: Seventy Six
Days Lost at Sea, Story of the Titanic as told by it's Survivors, Danger
Stalks the Land: Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival, titanic Survivor
Though it's old, and is more than just survival, I still love Kon Tiki /
Thor Heyrdahl (sp?)
How about It's Not About the Bike, Kon Tiki, Within Reach, or Hot Zone?
How about Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, 4,000 Days in a Bankok Prison,
Warren Fellows, In the land of white death by Valerian Albanov? These
are all great books; non-fiction adventure stories.
Kon-Tiki - old but good
The Perfect Storm - not a survival story, but a great story
Geeks: how two lost boys rode the internet out of Idaho - true story
about two 19 year olds who made new lives for themselves in Chicago.
Dibs: in search of self - true story about a child who overcame many
emoptional idsabilities, told by his therapist
The Long Walk by Slavonir Rawicz. Old book-1950-60's vintage. Author was
looking for someone who had seen the Abominable snowman in the Himalayas
and found a man who told his story of walking out of a prison camp in
Siberia with several companions.
here is a series of about four books of short stories that focus on
survival in specific
areas. The secondary title is "stories for survival from ...". We have
Ice and Epic. Epic
is stories of survival from the world's highest peaks.
Into Thin Air by John Krakaur, Adrift by Stephen Callahan
Try some books by Will Hobbs. He's written lots of survival stories
appropriate for junior high to high school.
My boys really like The Maze by Will Hobbs.
Everyone will recommend Gary Paulsen, but I really like Will Hobbs. He
writes about the southwest and northwest in the current day and is a
very good writer. He uses lots of local colloquialisms in his conversations.
...this is great book: Leslie, Edward E. Desperate Journeys, Abandoned
Souls: true stories of castaways and other survivors. New York: Houghton
Mifflin, 1988. it has over 20 stories and definitely at the high school
level.
Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea
The Dove
Into Thin Air
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party
Survive the savage sea. Robertson, Dougal
Staying alive! 117 days adrift--the incredible saga of a courageous
couple who outwitted death at sea
Bailey, Maurice. Red sky in mourning : a true story of love, loss, and
survival at sea.
Ashcraft, Tami Oldham, 1960- Fire fighters : stories of survival from
the front lines of firefighting.
Danger stalks the land : Alaskan tales of death and survival / Larry Kaniut.
So that others may live : Caroline Hebard & her search-and-rescue dogs /
Hank Whittemore and Caroline Hebard.
Within reach : my Everest story / Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin.
Everest : mountain without mercy. Coburn, Broughton, 1951-
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong. It is the
story of the crew of the Endurance, Shakleton's ship that went to
explore the south pole around 1912. The ship became ice locked, and
eventually sank. All 28 men survived for two years until they were able
to reach safety. There is an "adult" best seller that was out in the
60's called "Endurance" that is also very good to read if your student
is a good reader. My sister and I wore Mom and Dad's copy out when we
were kids. It still amazes me that all 28 survived. Also amazing is that
the Naional Geographic photographer who was on the ship saved
photographs and movies of the early part of the trip. We're not talking
a disposable camera in the pocket here, but the big plates. There were
several TV specials last year about Shakleton, and the Antarctic. And,
last but not least, my folks just got back from a cruise to Antarctica.
Why? Because they've been everywhere else. As you can tell, I love this
book and topic!!!
Just finished a book call Shackleton's boat trip by F.A. Worsley. Good book!
Into Thin Air_ by Krakauer is excellent. I couldn't put it down. One of
the other climbers that was on Everest during that episode also wrote a
book that rebuts some of what Krakauer describes (I cannot recall the
title or author off the top of my head).
_Winterdance: the fine madness of running the Iditerod_ by Paulson is
one of my favorites. It is not only a fine non-fiction survival story,
it is one of the funniest books I have ever read.
Some others that have been recommended to me that I have not yet read:
_Into the Wild_ also by Krakauer
_The Perfect Storm_ by Junger
----
Jon Krakauer's books Into Thin Air and Into the Wild. My last year at
the high school level I paired two books for a sr. boy who needed to do
a comparative literature project--CALL OF THE WILD (London) and INTO THE
WILD. I had never seen him so excited about school as when he finished it.
Try "Adrift" by S. Callahan (?). One of my favorites. Also on Audiotape.
From Follett:
FLR# Title Publisher Yr Bnd RL IL Qty 1st
Price Ext
21853L1 Adrenaline 2000 : the year' Thunder's M 00 14.40
29096L1 Apache voices : their stori University 32.95
15547M0 Being with Rachel : a story
15466M0 Belly of the beast : a POW'
16376L8 Bitter prerequisites :
24392M4 The blue bear : a true stor
20844H5 Bluebirds and their surviva
17766KX Climb : stories of survival
24023M0 Cold burial : a true story
27006M3 Coming to term : a father's
Escape from Lucania : an ep
24665K7 Everest : alone at the summ
28071KX Feels like far : a rancher'
11742M7 Hunted : a true story of su
28710J4 Ice : stories of survival
06756L3 Ice bound : a doctor's incr 2
In the zone : epic survival
23173K7 Inherit the truth : a memoi
22174B6 Inside the concentration ca
23839MX Last man down : a firefight
27918F6 Lord of the flies
27011L5 Lost in Death Valley : the Twenty-Firs
16342K1 Not even my name : from a
28816J3 Orphans of the Cold War : A PublicAffai
14611L0 A past in hiding : memory a
27599J5 The pianist : the extraordi
10736N3 Red sky in mourning : a tru
16826L3 The rescue : a true story o
28018L0 Shackleton's way : leadersh
28220B8 Simon Wiesenthal : a life i
25757A3 Stalin's peasants : resista
12201K5 Survival : the story of a
10162N0 Survive : stories of castaw
26052J7 Wild : stories of survival
One of my favorites is _Annapurna_ by Maurice Herzog, about the first
successful summiting of an 8000+ meter peak (in, I think, 1950). Herzog
and his team endured incredible hardship and, while his memory of the
events has been criticized by his fellow climbers in the years since
this book's publication, it remains an incredibly compelling story. I
think it was recently reissued.
Here's some that might fit the bill. The last one is more about modern
'urban survival'
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
by Dr. Jerri Nielsen
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon
Krakauer
Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent Into the Ocean's Depth's
by Bernie Chowdhury and Homer Hickham
Surviving Gallerias by Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne
Within reach : My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin
Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
Monster: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Monster Kody Scott,
Sanyika Shakur
The Donner party by Werther
Into thin air by Krakauer and Into the wild by the same author
The Endurance: Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition by Alexander
Climb : stories of survival from rock, snow, and ice / edited by Clint
Willis.
Nonfiction:
Krakauer. Into the Wild. Into Thin Air.
Larson. Isaac's Storm.
Junger. The Perfect Storm.
Armstrong. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World.
Pfetzer & Galvin. Within Reach: My Everest Story.
Paulsen. Guts.
Fiction:
Ullman. Banner in the Sky.
Paulsen. Hatchet (and 3 sequels)
Campbell. A Place of Lions.
Bunting. SOS Titanic.
Mazer. Snowbound.
Wells. The Island of Dr. Moreau
Try Into Thin Air by Jon Krakower..... although he does NOT survive.
He has read all of Gary Paulson's survival stories?
Adrift
Life of Pi
Lord of the Flies
Shackelton's Expedition
Donner Party
Kon-Tiki
Undaunted Courage
--
Joanne Shawhan
Library Media Specialist
Cobleskill-Richmondville High School
1353 State Route 7
Richmondville NY 12149
(518)234-3565 x1151, 1152
(518) 234-9006 (fax)
jshawhan@nycap.rr.com
shawhanj@crcs.k12.ny.us
http://www.crcs.k12.ny.us/lib/hs/index.htm
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