A Fortunate Life - A B Facey

I finished reading A Fortunate Life just last week. Its an Australian Classic and a highly regarded book.

I was pleasantly supprised. A Fortunate Life is the simply written life story of Albert Facey, from his birth in country Victoria to the relocation of his family to Western Australia with his Grandmother. A Fortunate Life tells the story of the massive hardships that Albert had to face; from trying to find work without having ever been to school, to the terrors of WW1 and Gallipoli. This book gave me a greater understand and appreciation of the hardships faced by those living in Australia at the beginning of the 20th century.

I would definately recommend A Fortunate Life!

SAS Survival Handbook

Author: John "Lofty" Wiseman

First Published: 1986

Summary: I don’t think you can ever finish reading this book. It is jam packed full of really practical survival tips. My brother and I both have a copy of this book and it inspired us to camp out in the bush for a night. We lit a campfire with flint and magnesium, built a shelter out of broken branches and two trees, made a bed with dried grass and slept the night in it with survival blankets that our granddad gave us which looked and felt like aluminium foil!

The shelter has survived 1 ½ years of rain, wind and crazed, half blind wombats.

This book is a really great survival book and guaranteed to get you out of the house trying to make shelters, snares or identify poisonous or edible plants.