Ray Mears’ Bibliography

RM books

This is a work in progress and will be finessed in due course. These are UK publications and there will be non-UK publications, which I will seek to add – also in due course.

Author

(*shown as Raymond Mears)

  • The Survival Handbook*– Oxford Illustrated Press 1990
  • The Complete Outdoor Handbook*– Ebury Press 1992
  • Ray Mears’ World of Survival – Harper Collins 1997
  • Outdoor Survival Handbook– Ebury Press/Random House 2001 ( this is a reprint of the 1992 book under a different title)
  • Bushcraft – Hodder & Staughton 2002.
  • Essential Bushcraft – Hodder & Staughton 2003.
  • The Real Heroes of Telemark- Hodder & Staughton 2004.
  • Ray Mears’ Bushcraft Survival- Hodder & Staughton 2005.
  • Wild Food (co-written with Professor Gordon Hillman)- Hodder & Staughton 2007.
  • Ray Mears Goes Walkabout – Hodder & Staughton 2008.
  • Vanishing World – Hodder & Staughton 2008.
  • Northern Wilderness- Hodder & Staughton 2009.
  • My Outdoor Life – Hodder & Staughton
  • Out on the Land (co-written with Lars Falt) – Bloomsbury 2016.

Foreword

  • The Good Life: Up the Yukon without a paddle – Dorian Amos – Eye Books 2004
  • Another Man’s Shoes – Sven SØmme & Ellie SØmme /Targett – Polperro Heritage Press 2005
  • Animal Tracks and Signs by Preben Bang & Preben Dahlstrom – Oxford University Press 2006 edition
  • Zen Explorations in Remotest New Guinea: Adventures in the Jungles and Mountains of Irian Jaya by Neville Shulman – two forewords – Rebecca Stephens & Ray Mears – Tuttle Publishing 1992

Mentions

  • On Foot Through Africa – Ffyona Campbell – 1995 Orion
  • The Art of Fire Daniel Hume 2017 Century (Penguin/Random House)
    Included in acknowledgements. Author worked at Woodlore, Mears’ School of Bushcraft, becoming Head of Operations, stepping down in 2017

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