Book Reviews

This a list of books I personally read or in a process of reading.  Mouse over 
the links to preview the picture and the price of the book on Amazon.

This is an astonishing book.  Laurence Gonzales (The Author) structured it in a 
very interesting and engaging way.  He starts off every chapter with a story of 
survival, throughout the story he writes his analysis of the actions that led 
up to a particular situation at hand.  He analyzes the thought process, the 
phases of human behavior in a survival situation and he tries to draw 
similarity between the thinking of a survivor.

   Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

There are so many books on knots but this one stands out from them in a very 
simple but important way - it tells you when and how to use each knot instead 
of listing thousands of them.  Additionally the book goes into alot of detail 
on rope management, rope/knot strength and modern rope materials.  I have three 
other knot books and this one is by far the best of them.  I even purchased an 
extra one to give as a present.

   The Outdoor Knots Book (Mountaineers Outdoor Basics)

I just started reading this book.  It's focus is on using SILVA style compass 
which has a transparent base with a directional arrow.  The author helped 
create this compass and from what I understand made it popular in North 
America.

Topics such as navigating with compass alone are covered in addition to compass 
orientering with a map.  The book is filled with fun games that make learning 
compass a lot easier.  The author does a great job of giving you real-life 
scenarios where you can use compass such as marking a fishing spot on a lake or 
finding a lake in the wilderness just by knowing it's direction from where you 
are.

The book explains the difference between the Classic sighting compass and the 
Sylva's style compass - you can immediately see the benefit of directional 
arrow found on SYLVA compass.

   Be Expert with Map and Compass

I haven't received this book yet but I already know that I am going to like it. 
 Conn Iggulden touches on the topic that has been bothering me for some time - 
rasing my son in a false protection or our modern society.  I'll expand on this 
later ...

   The Dangerous Book for Boys