You're going to be stuck, alone, on a deserted island for the rest of your life. You have a decent general knowledge of fieldcraft, plant identification, and survival skills (including basic field first aid) already in your head.
What ten HARDCOPY books would you want to take with you? And your rationale? (No, I don't want to hear "The Complete Book of Shipbuilding!")
For what it's worth: a "book" would be only about the size of a nice big study Bible or encyclopedia volume, so you COULD have a "complete Shakespeare" or "collected Dickens" in one book----but not the complete Encyclopedia Brittannica, sorry.
And for everyone who's familiar with the old Twilight Zone....no funny plot twists....you can presume that your eyeglasses will hold up just fine!
Just wondering what all the bibliomaniacs here would choose....
2006-09-12 15:05:24 · 7 answers · asked by samiracat 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I checked this after 6 answers (heading out of town soon)---but even if that wasn't the case, LOTS of great feedbacks. Going to let the time run out and see who else responds, and let it go to voting.
Can I take all you guys with me to the island, or maybe get together for coffee? (g) Could see some wild discussions....
2006-09-13 14:17:44 · update #1
1. Survive on a Desert Island by Claire Llewellyn
2. Extreme Survival Almanac: Everything You Need To Know To Live Through A Shipwreck, Plane Crash, Or Any Outdoor Crisis Imaginable by Reid Kincaid
3. SAS Survival Guide: How to Survive in the Wild, in any Climate, on Land, or at Sea by John Wiseman
4. An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island by Tom Neale
5. The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook by American Red Cross, Kathleen A. Handal
6. The Encyclopedia of Survival Techniques by Alexander Stilwell
7. Trapping, Fishing, and Plant Food by Patrick Wilson, John T. Carney
8. Wayside Plants of the Islands: A Guide to the Lowland Flora of the Pacific Islands by W. Arthur Whistler
9. Tropical Island Herpetofauna by Hidetoshi Eta
10. Holy Bible
2006-09-13 05:01:54 · answer #1 · answered by BookLovr5 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Comprehensive Botany book so I would know exactly what to eat and what to use for building.
2. A dictionary
3. The Time Traveler's Wife
4. A book on Radio creation
5. A book on harnessing solar power
6.Complete Writings of MLK
7.Book on Meditation
8.Book on Aikido or Tai Chi
9.Porn
10. Porn
2006-09-12 15:29:15 · answer #2 · answered by wildstar_2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really like this question and i had to think about it....
1. The Bible
2. a book of Dickens(doesnt matter what ones)
3. Sherlock Holmes( I dont know if all would fit in one book, but one book would be enough)
4. Complete Shakespeare
5. Edgar Allen(sp?) Poes. poems
6. Swiss Family Robinson
and probably 5 really good books that involve thought, so i could read them many times and still have to think about something
2006-09-12 15:30:02 · answer #3 · answered by softballmoosey79 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English Dictionary (cross ref to French and Italian)
French Dictionary
It alien Dictionary
Les Rois Maudits de Maurice Druon
Beginner, intermediate and advanced Algebra
Grey's Anatomy
Night Sky by Clare Francis
And all the kings men by Gordon Stevens
The Lord of the Rings
Dante's Inferno, in Italian
Complete Harry Potter series
It's never too late to learn. Some of those books are my all time favourites, so I guess I would like to have them with me.
2006-09-12 17:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Finnegan's Wake--James Joyce. It'll take a lifetime for me to get all of the allusions in this alone.
Robinson Crusoe--I'd finally identify with the character
The Bible--Good story and a little faith is never bad
Complete Oxford Shakespeare--who wouldn't
COmplete Dorothy Parker--laughter
The biggest collection of BUkowski I could find--bring me back to earth
The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--little more laughter
The thickest anthology of children's lit I could find--after a while fairy tales might be nice.
Collected Dickens
A dictionary--don't ask. something I do for fun.
2006-09-12 21:49:18 · answer #5 · answered by Gabe S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hrmm - first of all - Excellent question.
I would want the complete Shakespeare, of course. And - here are my other 9:
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Hemingway
And... I don't know. 7 random Pulitzer Prize winning novels, I suppose. (It'd be nice to have something I haven't read - so I can read it and pore over it for however long I'm stuck on that island paradise).
2006-09-12 15:12:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Oxford Bible.
The Oxford English Dictionary in two volumes
Complete Shakespeare - in one volume
Collected works of Lewis Carroll - "
Collected writings of A.A. Milne (Winne the Pooh)
Joseph Conrad's short stories
John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row"
Martha Grimes "The Old Silent" (best, so far, of the Richard Jury mysteries)
Christopher Moore's "Island of the Sequined Love Nun"
2006-09-19 03:29:24 · answer #7 · answered by soxrcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋