Bradford Angier (born May 13 in 1910, died March 3 in 1997) was a writer and an American survivaliste. Advocate a return to a life closer to the earth, Bradford Angier has written over 35 books on how to survive in the wild and how to eat in the wild.
In 1947, Bradford and his wife Vena lived in Boston in Massachusetts. Inspired by the teachings of Henry David Thoreau, the couple moved to Hudson's Hope, a small Canadian town north-east of British Columbia, to lead a simple life in contact with the earth. At Hudson's Hope, they found an old cabin prospectors. Thanks to some tools on the spot and recovered with the help of several books and textbooks they had made, they managed to repair it. Bradford learned to hunt and gather berries and other wild foods.
Finally, Bradford began writing books about life in the wild and Vena illustrated by hand. The couple lived in Canada until the construction of the dam W. A. C. Bennett on the Peace River that forced him to move. They settled in Cambria in California where they built a house less than 90 sq meters.
During the 1970s, Bradford and Vena returned to Hudson's Hope. In 1972, Bradford wrote One Acre & Security in which he described how to live and eat on an area of one acre of land. At that time it became popular thanks to the movement back to the land and was followed by many imitators who wanted to test his lifestyle. It was sometimes nicknamed "Mr. Outdoors".
Bradford died in 1997, just months after celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with Vena.
