Seventeen-year-old Moses struggles to stay alive when he is left behind to keep watch over the belongings of his fellow travelers in a wagon train that has run into trouble with the onset of winter while journeying from Iowa to California in 1844.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
"Gives essential survival tips for building shelter in the wild, including using natural means in different regions such as the desert, forest, jungle, and cold areas. Also includes information on what to bring for aid when building shelters"--Provided by publisher.
A survival guide that provides tips and advice on various outdoor, wilderness, and emergency situations; discusses shelter, food, water, fire, navigation, signaling, first aid, and other related topics; and also covers natural disasters.
A fictionalized retelling of the true story of three-year-old Sarah Whitcher, who, in 1783, became lost in the woods of New Hampshire and was protected by a bear until her rescue four days later.
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
survival techniques from the most dangerous places on Earth
Grylls, Bear
2008
Television host and survival expert Bear Grylls offers a practical guide to surviving in any terrain, with information on how to find water, shelter, and food and how to stay protected in any environment.
