 | The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Buy used from: £0.01 This is the original survival classic, read this book and youll see it in lots of recent efforts, read it again 28 Days Later and ignore the sequel.
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 | Seven Years in Tibet (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Heinrich Harrer
Buy used from: £0.01 Trekking holiday in Tibet from the man who climbed the White Spider without crampons.
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £0.01 Cut loose and left for dead, could you drag your broken leg over rocks for 6 miles while on the Atkins diet (without the protein)? Watch out for the latrines&ooohhh yuch.
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 | Hannibal (Wordsworth Military Library) by Ernle Bradford
Buy used from: £1.58 Fancy a 15 year trip to Italy? Send him some support you idiots!
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 | Food for Free by Richard Mabey
Buy used from: £10.57 Makes trips in the countryside more interesting when you can eat the scenery.
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 | Military Memoirs: The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
Buy used from: £0.01 The rifles, as usual, were pretty busy. The French, came steadily down upon us, and we pelted away upon them like a shower of leaden ball. Hard to believe anybody survived let alone wrote about it.
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £0.59 Hemmingways flat style and the story of an old struggle.Nobel Prize winner 1954.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Horror, concrete and survival in a Siberian work camp.
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 | The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
Buy used from: £4.50 Some didn't even live to see the Gulag, but Slavomir escapes and makes it to India, only 4000miles away. A true story. Even the bit about the yeti.
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 | Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy used from: £1.48 Modern guide for everyday living. Read it.
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