FIVE BOOKS FOR SURVIVALISTS
The Encyclopedia of Country Living - By Carla Emery
First started in the 1970’s and still going strong with over 800 000 copies sold and 50 editions. This phonebook sized tomb of knowledge is an essential asset to any prepper or survivalist library. Includes practical advice for everything from choosing and buying land, gardening, raising meat animals, barn building, home food preserving, cheese making, caring for the dead, giving birth, managing your money... An extensive collection of knowledge directly related to self-sufficiency, and homesteading. If it isn’t in here, you don’t need it. Legacy collection worthy.
Petersons Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America - By Steven Foster & James A. Duke
Everything you need to know about the wild plants around you. Tons of colour photos, detail descriptions, traditional and non-traditional uses, where to find the plants, how to identify them, when in the year to look for them. A very useful and valuable book for survivalists making it in a no internet world.
Spy The Lie - By Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero
The authors of this book developed the methods described within for use in intelligence and counter-intelligence while working at the CIA. The book teaches you how to detect when someone is lying to you, as well as how to disguise your own rouse. Now, why would this be valuable information for survivalists you ask? Well, imagine a world present or future where the truth matters. Being able to better judge for yourself if someone is being honest with you in our opinion is gold, pure gold knowledge.
How to Survive The End Of The World As We Know It - By James Wesley Rawles
JWR is a legend in the survivalist community. If you are this unfamiliar with his writing I suggest you have a look at his blog - Survivalblog. JWR has been writing about survival longer than some of us have been alive. His knowledge on the subject is thoroughly vetted and expert. In How to Survive The End Of The World As We Know It, Mr. Rawles outlines all of the basics+ you need to consider surviving the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI). Expert advice on all aspects of life on the other side. Highly recommended.
SHTF Survival Stories - Tales From The Balkan War - By Selco Begovic
Selco lived through the Bosnian War. He writes from first hand experience. Many of us envision some crazy event like WW3 sending us into the abyss of post-apocalyptic survival. Perhaps. What Selco offers is a more down to earth reality of a societal collapse and the consequences for citizens. The slow decline of civility all the way down to the horrors we have all heard of from the Balkan Wars. Selco explores case studies of how people he knew survived a truly SHTF world, in addition to his own personal tales of survival. An excellent read about a version of chaos you may not have envisioned. An eye opening read. (Selco is also a guest author from time to time on the popular blog TheOrganicPrepper.com - worthy of a bit of your time)
The Northern Survivalist