Re: Darwin and adventure

I'm going to order myself a copy of the book - thanks for the info!

One of the best survival books I read was written by a guy named Larry Dean Olsen back in the 1970's. Now, I'll admit that it was oriented towards the desert southwest, but I really liked his attitude towards taking full advantage of any materials that nature, through design or chance, throws your way. It was not so much the particular skills that his book illustrated as the open minded thinking that it encouraged that I have found to be helpful on more than a couple of occasions.

I wonder what box that book is in, now that I think about it, along with Downward Bound, Advanced Rockcraft (RR) and a really cool tome about climbing in the British Isles ....(written in the 1960's, referencing different types of boot nails, qualities of hemp rope and the importance of particular wood types for ice axe shafts ....)