Which reminds me - Lofty Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook should make the list. Great fun. I've never tried to use most of it, mind :-)
And, talking of bowline knots, Geoffrey Budworth's The Knot Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knot-Book-Geoffrey-Budworth/dp/071602084X/sr=1-32/qid=1162993014/ref=sr_1_32/026-5600560-0659614?ie=UTF8&s=books) is great. 100 knots (though some are duplicates) many of them useful, and all of them well-explained and clearly diagrammed.
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And, talking of bowline knots, Geoffrey Budworth's The Knot Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knot-Book-Geoffrey-Budworth/dp/071602084X/sr=1-32/qid=1162993014/ref=sr_1_32/026-5600560-0659614?ie=UTF8&s=books) is great. 100 knots (though some are duplicates) many of them useful, and all of them well-explained and clearly diagrammed.