This book didn't get me started, but I just bought a copy of Jack London's short story, "To Build a Fire" yesterday. I'd never read it before, although my father had described it to me long ago. I read it through cover to cover three times last night. It contains the most detailed description of building a fire I've seen. Considering they're classed as "fiction", I think Jack London's stories probably contain as much survival information as many non-fiction survival manuals.
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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
-Plutarch