Definitely. One of the trade goods that was tried on the American Indians was a compass. The Indians would just laugh and ask what kind of idiot would need something to tell them what direction was what? I stopped carrying a compass when I realized that the official Boy Scout compass I had pointed South… besides it seems like a crutch other than on a REALLY cloudy day…
But these are the best survival guides I ever bought:
This one is imminently practical but is very formulaic:
https://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Survival-Skills-Larry-Olsen/dp/1556523238/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470767735&sr=1-1&keywords=Larry+Dean+Olsen’s+“Outdoor+Survival+Skills”
i.e. it will tell you a step by step process to do something. (The description this shows on here is not a correct description of the book for some reason… it’s by Larry Dean Olsen with a forward by Robert Redford)
Here’s another by the same author, which you may already have:
This one is more philosophical, but the wonderful thing is it shows you how to figure out how to do things:
e.g. instead of telling you step by step how to build a shelter he tells you how to figure out how to build a shelter with what you have, by telling you how he was taught to build a shelter. That is very different, but I think it’s important to learn.