Forum: Story Recommendations

I'd like to read something where a guy travels back in time, or to a primitive planet, but he doesn't bring any modern conveniences with him. I want it to be about a modern man surviving and interacting in a primitive time/world with the resources that exist there, rather than him bringing modern stuff and teaching the natives about guns etc.

So something like Bob's Great Adventure, or John and Argent, but without all the modern stuff from the future that they bring with them. I think it'd be alot more interesting to read about a man that doesn't have all the stuff he's used to, than about someone that brings the future with him to the past.

Any recommendations?

"A Close Call" and "Man, That Was Some Rabbit Hole" both by Aubie56.

I love these types of stories, I also prefer the ones where they don't bring modern tools back or at least if they bring modern created time appropriate weapons and tools. Hate it when they get sudden tech boosts that take the tech advancing several jumps ahead without the MC doing the work.

It's more of a do over story but I cannot recommend A New Past enough. The author has the MC do all the advances in a plausible manner.

https://storiesonline.net/s/75651/a-new-past

'Spirit Quest' by FantasyLover should meet your criteria. A teen age Native American boy is sent back in time by the Spirits to medieval Europe. He has his clothes, some seedlings and seeds, his hand tools, and his handmade documentation on how to do or build things. He saves the sister of the king of the Franks, is made an Earl and marries the sister. He uses his knowledge and documentation to bring Europe up to roughly the 20th century, without a lot of the wars and other bad things that came along the first time.