📚 Survival

Staying alive by skill: water, fire, shelter, and the manuals’ honest fear of the first night.

Below are the 8 works carrying the subject survival in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	In the Heart of the Sea	Nathaniel Philbrick	2000	38
	SAS Survival Handbook	John Wiseman	1986	21
	Staying alive	Maurice Bailey	1974	8
	Survive!	Les Stroud	2009	8
	I survived the California wildfires, 2018	Lauren Tarshis	2020	4
	NO GRID Survival Projects	Davis, Claude, Sr.	2021	2
	The Book	Hungry Minds	2022	2
	The Last Kids on Earth	Max Brallie	2015	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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