Dave Canterbury Books in Order
Dave Canterbury has written 17 books, published between 2012 and 2022. The first book is Edible Plants of the Eastern Woodlands (2012) and the newest is The Bushcraft Essentials Field Guide (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 17
- Published
- 2012–2022
- Pages on record
- 4 in 3 of 17 books
Dave Canterbury, born David Michael Canterbury on 19 September 1963, is a survival expert who co-starred in the Discovery Channel series Dual Survival across two seasons in 2010 and 2011. Canterbury later co-starred in Dirty Rotten Survival on the National Geographic Channel in 2015. Bushcraft 101 (2014) reached The New York Times Best Seller list. The catalogue lists 17 books under the Bushcraft series, from Edible Plants of the Eastern Woodlands (2012) to The Bushcraft Essentials Field Guide (2022), with subjects including North American botany and medicinal plants.
How many Dave Canterbury books are there?
Dave Canterbury has 17 books, released between 2012 and 2022. 6 of them belong to the Bushcraft series.
Dave Canterbury Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 17 Dave Canterbury books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Edible Plants of the Eastern Woodlands2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 2Medicinal Plants of the Eastern Woodlands2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 3Survivability For The Common Man2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 4Basic & Primitive Navigation2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 5Signaling for Rescue2012 · 1 pages · confirmed 1/4201211/4
- 6Improvised Hunting Weapons2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 7Wilderness First Aid2012 · 2 pages · confirmed 1/4201221/4
- 8Shelter, Fire, Water2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 9Improvised Trapping2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 10Building a Survival Kit2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 11Basic Tracking2012 · 1 pages · confirmed 1/4201211/4
- 122014–1/4
- 132015–1/4
- 14The Bushcraft Field Guide to Trapping, Gathering, and Cooking in the WildBushcraft #32016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 152017–1/4
- 162019–1/4
- 172022–1/4
Dave Canterbury books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Bushcraft in order
6 booksStandalone books
11 books11 Dave Canterbury titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Dave Canterbury books in order?
You only need to read Dave Canterbury books in order within the Bushcraft series, which holds 6 of the 17 Dave Canterbury books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Dave Canterbury
Start with Edible Plants of the Eastern Woodlands (2012), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Dave Canterbury book?
The Bushcraft Essentials Field Guide (2022) is the newest Dave Canterbury book released so far.
Is there a new Dave Canterbury book coming?
No next Dave Canterbury book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Dave Canterbury at a glance
- Paused
- No new Dave Canterbury title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Dave Canterbury books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 4 pages across the 3 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 1 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dave Canterbury books, 16 of 17, were published in the 2010s.
What the Dave Canterbury books are about
2 of the 17 Dave Canterbury books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: botany, north america is tagged on 2 of 2. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Botany, north america 2 of 2 books
- Medicinal plants 1 of 2 books
- Natural history, north america 1 of 2 books