What's in the Bag?
- Introduction
- The SAS Survival Handbook
- The Urban Survival Handbook
- Survival: A Manual that Could Save Your Life
- Camping and Woodcraft
- The Backpacker's Handbook
- Backpacker Magazine
- Common Sense Survival for Outdoor Enthusiasts
- Backpacking One Step at a Time
- Ten Essentials
- Sports Afield Outdoor Skills
- Staying Alive
- Basic Survival Kit
- Advanced Crisis Pack
- Auxillary Crisis Pack
- Fast Food For Your Bug Out Bag
- Basic Crisis Pack
- Short Survival List
- Blue Ridge Mountain Rescue List
- Food for Thought
- An Abstract List
- A Compact Kit
- Disaster Supplies
- Greybeard
- FEMA
- Retail Kits
- Survival Kit Contents
- 10 Packs for Survival
The SAS Survival Handbook
by John Wiseman
This is the survival book recommended most frequently. The book's wide scope (desert to jungle to liferaft) makes it a good broad starting point, but you'd probably want to supplement it.
Visit Wiseman's WWW site.
Survival Kit (Pocket-Size):
- Matches
- Candle
- Flint
- Magnifying Glass
- Needles and Thread
- Fishoooks and Line
- Compass
- Beta Light
- Snare Wire
- Flexible Saw (wire saw)
Medical Kit:
- Pain reliever
- Intestinal seditive
- Antibiotic
- Antihistimine
- Water sterilizing tablets
- Anti-malaria tablets
- Potassium permanganate
- Surgical Blades
- Butterfly Sutures
- Plasters (band-aids)
- Condom
Survival Pouch (larger kit):
- Mess Tin
- Fuel
- Flashlight
- Flares
- Marker Panel (surveyor's tape?)
- Matches
- Brew Kit (tea kit)
- Clear Plastic Bag
- Food
- Knife & sharpener
… all in a waterproof pouch
