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Books like How to Survive

Readers who finished How to Survive by Brian Hildreth and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Outdoor life, Adventure & Adventurers, Outdoor Skills, and Adventure.

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Top related books to How to Survive

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places — John Keay

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places

Themes: Adventure & Adventurers • Adventure • Special Interest

Forest School Adventure Outdoor Skills and Play for Children — Dan Westall

Forest School Adventure Outdoor Skills and Play for Children

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Exploring and Finding the Way — Watkins

Exploring and Finding the Way

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Microadventures Local Discoveries for Great Escapes — Alastair Humphreys

Microadventures Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

Alastair Humphreys

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Gone Bush — Paul Kilgour

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Ultimate Survival Wilderness, Terrorism, Surviving Extreme Situations: Land, Sea and Air — Cook, Akkermans, Mattos and Morrison

Ultimate Survival Wilderness, Terrorism, Surviving Extreme Situations: Land, Sea and Air

Cook, Akkermans, Mattos and Morrison

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

AMC’s Best Day Hikes in the Shenandoah Valley Four-Season Guide to 50 of the Best Trails from Harpers Ferry to Jefferson National Forest — Jennifer Adach

AMC’s Best Day Hikes in the Shenandoah Valley Four-Season Guide to 50 of the Best Trails from Harpers Ferry to Jefferson National Forest

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

River-horse The Logbook of a Boat Across America — William Least Heat Moon

River-horse The Logbook of a Boat Across America

William Least Heat Moon

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Melanin Base Camp Real-Life Adventurers Building a More Inclusive Outdoors — Danielle Williams

Melanin Base Camp Real-Life Adventurers Building a More Inclusive Outdoors

Danielle Williams

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Ultimate Adventures: Australia — Andrew Bain

Ultimate Adventures: Australia

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

In Bed with the Atlantic — Kitiara Pascoe

In Bed with the Atlantic

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Great British Dad-Ventures 101 Maps for Dads Who Like Doing Things: the Perfect Father’s Day Gift — Mat Riley

Great British Dad-Ventures 101 Maps for Dads Who Like Doing Things: the Perfect Father’s Day Gift

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Wilderness Navigation Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & Gps, 3rd Edition — Bob Burns

Wilderness Navigation Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & Gps, 3rd Edition

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Shackleton’s Epic Recreating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival — Tim Jarvis

Shackleton’s Epic Recreating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Advanced Bushcraft An Expert Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival — Dave Canterbury

Advanced Bushcraft An Expert Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival

Dave Canterbury

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

The Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods — John McPherson

The Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures Facing Up – Facing the Frozen Ocean — Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures Facing Up – Facing the Frozen Ocean

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Under the Sky Playing, Working and Enjoying Adventures in the Open Air — Sally Schweizer

Under the Sky Playing, Working and Enjoying Adventures in the Open Air

Sally Schweizer

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Bear Grylls’s Great Outdoors Adventures — Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls’s Great Outdoors Adventures

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Wanderlust USA — Cam Honan

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Leave No Trace A Practical Guide to the New Wilderness Ethic — Annette McGivney

Leave No Trace A Practical Guide to the New Wilderness Ethic

Annette McGivney

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Great Outdoors U. S. A. 1,000 Adventures Across All 50 States — National Geographic

Great Outdoors U. S. A. 1,000 Adventures Across All 50 States

National Geographic

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Basic Essentials Using GPS — Bruce Grubbs

Basic Essentials Using GPS

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

Hiking and Backpacking — Wilderness Education Association (U.S.)

Hiking and Backpacking

Wilderness Education Association (U.S.)

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventure • Special Interest

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Outdoor life, Adventure & Adventurers, Outdoor Skills — the same threads that run through How to Survive by Brian Hildreth. Among the authors featured: John Keay, Dan Westall, Watkins, Alastair Humphreys, and others.

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