How do you survive when shit hits the fan? These books will teach you the best survival tips out there.
Emergency
By Niel Strauss.
Learn how to be self-sufficient and survive without the system.
Niel Strauss teaches you strategies to survive everything from terrorist attacks, natural disasters, domestic crackdowns, economic collapse, riots, wars, starvation AND disease and viruses. What can you do when shit hits the fan?
I’ve read this book and it’s great. The five chapters making up the books is:
- Orientation
- Five Steps
- Escape
- Survive
- Resque
These chapters contain 69 lessons such as “Introducing the urban survival kit” and “The presidents plan to save you“. It’s quite a fun read that preps you for when shit hits the fan.
Just in Case
How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens. By Kathy Harrison.
“Learn how to inventory and rotate your food supply, pack an evacuation kit, maintain communication with loved ones, and much more. You’ll soon gain the ingenuity and resourcefulness to get your family through even the most unfortunate circumstances.”
“Just in Case” teaches you survival tips broken down in 4 parts:
Part 1: The OAR system: Organize, Acquire, Rotate.
Part 2: Preparedness: Getting your home and family ready to handle crisis.
Part 3: Dealing with disaster: What to do in an emergency.
Part 4: Doing it yourself: The arts of self-sufficiency.
SAS Survival Handbook
The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere. By John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman.
The SAS Survival Handbook teaches you these survival topics:
Being prepared: Understanding basic survival skills, like reading the weather, and preparation essentials, such as a pocket survival kit.
Making camp: Finding the best location, constructing the appropriate shelter, organizing camp, staying warm, and creating tools.
Food: What to eat, what to avoid, where to find it, and how to prepare it.
First aid: A comprehensive course in emergency/wilderness medicine, including how to maximize survival in any climate or when injured.
Disaster survival: How to react in the face of natural disasters and hostile situations—and how to survive if all services and supplies are cut off.
Self-defense: Arming yourself with basic hand-to-hand combat techniques.
Security: Protecting your family and property from intrusion, break-ins, and theft.
Climate & terrain: Overcoming any location, from the tropics to the poles, from the desert to the mountains and sea.
The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide
“If you had to deal with an injury or illness in a disaster, would you know what to do? The Survival Medicine Handbook is a 670 page detailed guide for those who want to be medically prepared for any disaster where help is NOT on the way.”
Emergency Preparedness for ANY Disaster. By Joseph Alton MD & Amy Alton ARNP.
The 10 main survival medic topics of this book:
- PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL PREPAREDNESS
- BECOMING A MEDICAL RESOURCE
- HYGIENE AND SANITATION
- INFECTIONS
- ENVIRON MENTAL FACTORS
- INJURIES
- CHRONIC MEDICAL PROBLEMS
- OTHER IMPORTANT MEDICAL ISSUES
- MEDICATIONS
- REFERENCES
The Prepper’s Pocket Guide
101 Easy Things You Can Do to Ready Your Home for a Disaster. By Bernie Carr.
This book breaks down the vital survival steps you should take into 101 quick and inexpensive steps. Some examples are:
6. Make a Master List of Passwords
16. Calculate How Much Water You Need
33. Start a Food Storage Plan for $5 a Week
60. Make a Safe from a Hollowed-out Book
77. Assemble an Inexpensive First Aid kit
89. Learn to Cook Without Electricity
94. Pack a Bug-out Bag
Deep Survival
True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death. Laurence Gonzales.
“A mix of adventure narrative, survival science, and practical advice has inspired everyone from business leaders to military officers, educators, and psychiatric professionals.”
When All Hell Breaks Loose
Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes. By Cody Lundin.
“According to the book, living through an emergency scenario is 90 percent psychology, and 10 percent methodology and gear.”
These are some the things you’ll get smarter on:
- Potable drinking water
- Storing super-nutritious foods
- Heating or cooling without conventional power
- How to create alternative lighting options
- Building a makeshift toilet & composting the results
- Catching rodents for food
- Safely disposing of a corpse
Please let me know if there’s any great survival books I should add!
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