@16: Thanks Osprey, that is very much what I was looking for. A great start (maybe a little dated, but interesting none-the-less).

I considered pursuing a career as a chemistry professor and the one class that I really wanted to teach was survival chemistry. It would have both explored the chemical reactions behind surviving in the woods (tanning leather, purifying water, extracting antibiotics) to doing real world, i.e. outside the laboratory, experiments.

So, if anyone knows of any resources along those lines please let me know! I'd love to find a book of experiments of that nature.