Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood seems like the perfect guest; she’s been writing about survival all her life. Her novel, Oryx and Crake, follows the lone survivor of a catastrophic worldwide epidemic; she’s written a collection of stories called Wilderness Tips; her novel, Surfacing, depicts a woman alone on a remote island; and in her scholarly study, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, she argues that this is the major theme of her native land. The subject has also cropped up in her novels The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Alias Grace. Let’s turn the tables and ask this prolific writer what she would put in her survival kit.
Her List:

Home Handyman Repair Book, plus tools (hammer, wrench,screwdriver, duct tape, scissors, fine wire)

A rifle, in case of bears and weird locals, and in case running out of food is an issue.

A telescope and sky map

Writing supplies, but not a computer

Recorder and music

A vat of Culpepper’s Rose Geranium Bath Salts

Full set of "I, Claudius" videos.

Full set of Beethoven

Collected works of John Milton

Collected works of Samuel Johnson

A tame raven