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2007-06-19 05:44:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Few answers explicitly addressed the "why them" part of the Q so I disqualified those as incomplete answers
2007-06-25 14:14:49 · update #1
In fairness to all, I realize that the Q was too broad and that I should have set aside survival issues bec you already had enough knowledge to survive alone and I should have specified how long before you were rescued. I'll be asking that Q once I pick best A for this Q.
2007-06-25 14:27:35 · update #2
I would like to have Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger and Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, because if you read them over and over, you will find something new in them with each reading.
2007-06-19 05:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by Tricia R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first would be my personal diary, so that I can write all about my poignant adventures and sufferings and, when I'm rescued, publish my very own bestselling autobiographical novel, which will one day be made into an oscar winning flick.
The second would be a book containing all the ships that will ever pass within sight of the island so that I can go home once I've had enough adventures.
2007-06-19 13:39:04 · answer #2 · answered by Charvi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How to Survive in the Wilderness - a classic of surviving off the land since the 1800's
And something else that doesn't weigh too much, but has enough paper in it to use in case of emergency.
2007-06-19 12:53:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Idiots Guide to Wilderness Survival
Getting Rescued for Dummies
2007-06-19 12:51:12 · answer #4 · answered by EMC 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I've answered this one before :
"One Hundred and One Cordon Bleu Recipes for a Coconut" by Ainsley Harriott
"How to Build a Raft from a Few Twigs and a Bit of String" by Thor Heyerdahl
2007-06-19 12:55:20 · answer #5 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hahaha, Chad´s answers are great.
How about... The Alexandrian Quartet, by Lawrence Durell... and probably Tao Te Ching by Chuang Tzu.
We are all in an island, some just want to get off or try to survive on it, some -few- continue living...
2007-06-19 13:17:23 · answer #6 · answered by poetrygal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible and Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas in English
2007-06-19 13:02:28 · answer #7 · answered by lastdazeman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rimbaud's Collected Poetry (to remind me that all we need to be as miserable as all of the rest of the people in the world is the mind, and that with our minds, we can "transcend" our surroundings into greater enlightenment)
Plato's Symposium (to remind me that the meaning of life is love an knowledge-- not modern conveniences)
2007-06-19 13:25:19 · answer #8 · answered by AmyBlue77 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
twilight and new moon. I pick those because in my final hours, i will still be able to read my favorite books. (I might even start seeing and hearing edward, just like bella. Then he could save me!) Sorry about that, it's just that i LOVE edward cullen. I also daydream alot!
2007-06-19 13:08:21 · answer #9 · answered by Shayde Dracul 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
war and peace ( to help start fires)
wilderness survival guide
2007-06-19 12:53:02 · answer #10 · answered by dave 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋