Posted: 3/2/2011 3:21:58 PM EDT
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I was wondering if you guys would give some input as to which books are essential to own for a person's bug out location. Think long-term... as in having to grow your own food, heat your house, etc.
I'm really wanting to start a home library of essential books. Something to turn to when/if the SHTF. |
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A few to have. http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books1.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books2.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books3.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books4.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books5.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books6.JPG Is the American Girl's Handy Book any good? |
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Fire fox series and a set of general encyclipedias are a nice start. This and they are available free online, here are some pretty good ones as well http://www.survivalblog.com/2009/07/survey_results_your_favorite_b.html |
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and a printer, a bunch of paper, and some binders.....you'll be set.... 
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Is the American Girl's Handy Book any good? It was a gift from a friend when I started take my daughter and him and his son out camping. It does have a bit of crafts, but really not as good as he nor I hoped it would be, of all the season, summer in the book is by far the best. For some good interusting reads in my collection: No such thing as doomsday (Hoag) for shelter and storage advise. The encyclopedia of country living (Emery), the self sufficent life (Seymour), The handbook to practical disaster prep, how to survive the end of the world.. (Rawles), Survive (Stroud), 98.6 (Lundin), Bugout, Foxfire collection, and many of the Storeys manuals for knowledge. Balls complete and blue book, really any book with Bruce Aidells in it, Sass and Vickis pressure cookbooks, Reinhards bread books, The veggie gardeners bible. seed by seed and root cellers for Food preservation/ prep/ etc. Anything hinged on disaster, doomsday, post apocalypse, or zombies for novels. |
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and a printer, a bunch of paper, and some binders.....you'll be set.... how long of a event are you planning for? a laptop will last years.. trade for a few more or buy some older ones and put them away in a steel grounded box. read on the laptops . |
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A few to have.... sir, looks like you and i have the same tastes in reading material... maybe i can get some pics to follow... OP, from my post titled "Referene List" - Hot Linked Survival Wilderness and or Urban:
SAS Survival Handbook by John "Lofty" Wiseman U.S. Army Ranger Handbook (U.S. Army manual) How to Stay Alive in the Woods by Bradford Angier 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive by Cody Lundin When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikesby Cody Lundin Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Field Guide) Edible Wild Plants(Eastern / Central North America) by Lee Peterson Medicinal Plants and Herbs(Eastern / Central North America) by Steven Foster and James Duke Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness by John McPherson Outdoor Survival Skills by Larry Dean Olsen Essential Bushcraft by Ray Mears Camping & Wilderness Survival: The Ultimate Outdoors Book by Paul Tawrell Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, by Neil Strauss Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival by Jack A. Spigarelli First Aid and Medicine: First Aid –– (American Red Cross Handbook) Responding To Emergencies Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition by Paul S. Auerbach Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook by David Werner Where There Is No Dentist by Murray Dickson Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures For Emergencies by Hugh Coffee Emergency War Surgery (NATO Handbook:- Third United States Revision, 2004) by Dr. Martin Fackler, et al. First Aid For Soldiers(FM 21-11) US Army Field Training Manual Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook (it superceded the very out-of-date ST 31-91B) Adventure Medical Kits A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness & Travel Medicineby Eric A. Weiss, M.D PDR for Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs, 2008 Physicians Drug Handbook Physicians' Desk Reference 2009 (PDR, 63rd Edition) The Merck Veterinary Manual The Survivalist's Medicine Chest by Ragnar Benson Do It Yourself Medicine by Ragnar Benson Homesteading and Self Reliance: The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Tenth Edition) by Carla Emery The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living by Walter Szykitka The Foxfire Book series (in 11 volumes, but the first five are the best) How to Find Your Ideal Country Home: A Comprehensive Guide by Gene GeRue Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century by Dick & James Strawbridge Making the Best of Basics - Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition by Abigail R. Gehring Today's Homestead(Volumes I and II) by Dona Grant Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance by John & Martha Storey When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein Living Off the Grid by Dave Black The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book by Mike Oehler Great Livin' in Grubby Times by Don Paul Living Well on Practically Nothing by Ed Romney Just in Case by Kathy Harrison Gardening and Food Preservation: Ball Blue Book of Preserving Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables by Mike Bubel Complete Book of Home Preserving Ball Cookin' with Home Storage by Vicki Tate Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew Small-Scale Grain Raising by Gene Lodgson Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Longby Elliot Coleman Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management by Maurice G. Kains The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses by Eliot Coleman Home Grown Whole Grains by Sara Pilzer The Complete Joy of Home Brewing(3rd Edition) by Charlie Papazian From Vines to Wines by Jeff Cox 101 Recipes for Making Wild Wines at Home by John Peragine Micro Eco-Farming by Barbara Adams Gardening Indoors with Soil & Hydroponics by George Van Patten Getting Started in Permaculture by Ross and Jenny Mars The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka Gaia's Garden(A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture, Second Edition) by Tody Hemenway Stocking Up: The Third Edition of America's Classic Preserving Guide by Carol Hupping Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook by Peggy Layton Game Gathering and Raising: Survival Poaching by Ragnar Benson Ragnar's Ten Best Traps(And a Few Others That Are Damn Good Too) by Ragnar Benson The Trapper's Bible(Traps, Snares, and Pathgaurds) by Dale Martin Firearms, Traps, & Tools of the Mountain Man by Carl Russell Home Book of Taxidermy and Tanning by Gerald Grantz Where There Is No Vet(Out of Print, available used on Amazon but very expensive) by Bill Forse Where There Is No Animal Doctor by Peter Quesenberry City Chicks by Patricia Foreman Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits by Bob Bennett The Complete Guide to Beekeeping for Fun and Profit(Everything You need to Know Explained Simply, Back to Basics) by Cindy Belknap Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees(Honey Production, Pollination, Health) by Richar Bonney and Malcolm Sanford Any of the "Storey's Guides to", pick an animal(chickens, ducks, rabbits, sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, etc.) chances are they've probably written a book to aid you in raising it for eventual production and / or consumption. Weapons, Defense and Tactics: Principles of Personal Defense - Revised Edition by Jeff Cooper The Secure Home by Joel Skousen The Little Black Book of Violence by Lawrence A. Kane and Kris Wilder Citizen Soldier(A Manual of Community Based Defense) by Robert Bradley Total Resistance by H. Von Dach Ultimate Sniper 2006 : An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers (2006 Updated Edition) by Maj. John L. Plaster Illustrated Manual of Sniper Skills by Mark Spicer Sniper Training and Employmnet(TC 32-14) US Army Field Training Manual Improvised Munitions Handbook(TM 31-210) US Army Field Training Manual Guerilla Warefare and Special Forces Operations(FM 31-21) US Army Field Training Manual Explosives and Demolitions(FM 5-25) US Army Field Training Manual Unconventional Walefare Devices and Techniques(TM 31-200-1) US Army Field Training Manual Boobytraps(FM 5-31) US Army Field Training Manual The absolute best resource on fighting with firearms(short of taking live training courses which is highly adviseable) are the MagPul Dynamics DVDs: Art of the Dynamic Handgun Art of the Dynamic Shotgun Art of the Tactial Carbine Vomues I and II Art of the Precision Rifle Miscelanious: The Alpha Strategy by James Pugsley Surviving the Coming Economic Collapse by Fernando Aguirre How to Survive TEOTWAWKI(The End Of The World As We Know It) by Jamey Wesly Rawles Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearney (Available for free download.) The ARRL Operating Manual For Radio Amateurs (ARRL Operating Manual) Passport to World Band Radio, 2009 Edition Starting a New Life in Rural America: 21 Things You Need to Know Before You Make Your Move by Ragnar Benson The Survival Retreat by Ragnar Benson Engineer Field Data (FM 5-34) US Army Field Training Manual The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James H. Kunstler The Boy Scout's Handbook K. |
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A few to have. http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books1.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books2.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books3.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books4.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books5.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books6.JPG I saw "Call of the Wild" in there somewhere. You do know Jack London was a total progressive POS, don't you? 
HAhahahaaa! Sorry! Couldn't help myself! (It's true, tough!) |
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I dont mind his stories, really like the short story To build a fire and such, and yes I like call of the wild, hell Charlton Heston was in the 70s movie based on the book!
Whats odd is how people rate someones work before and after an event. Proof in point. We all (as do I) praise the foxfire magainze/ book/ project however the man responsable for the foxfire series (Eliot Wigginton) is a convicted child molestor. How many knew that? But people still recommend his books. Is it going to change your mind that his knowledge on certian subjects far surpasses what some have ever learned in their lifetime? Do people protest that he should have his "teacher of the year" award pulled or renounced? I still think those books are great. |
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A few to have. http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books1.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books2.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books3.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books4.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books5.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books6.JPG I see one in there that I really like! 
Actually, you have three of my favorites. The POI, DWB, Black Light trilogy is my all time favorite. I think Dirty White Boys has the best antagonist ever written. |
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and a printer, a bunch of paper, and some binders.....you'll be set.... how long of a event are you planning for? a laptop will last years.. trade for a few more or buy some older ones and put them away in a steel grounded box. read on the laptops . I know...I got a couple latitude that are ancient.....and on it's third battery......I really don't have a problem with e-media.....but I like hard copies. I do have a bunch of PDF files....manuals mostly....in an external hard drive.....but I have a gigantic library if gardening books.....gunsmithing books and tech manuals.....livestock......etc....also foxfire and Backwoods Home Magazine anthologies......plus a bunch of text books from about 6th grade through college...basic stuff.....and a lot of history.....more....... 
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A few to have. http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books1.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books2.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books3.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books4.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books5.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~utspoolup/books6.JPG I see one in there that I really like!
Actually, you have three of my favorites. The POI, DWB, Black Light trilogy is my all time favorite. I think Dirty White Boys has the best antagonist ever written. Of course I would have your book Halffast. Also have a printed copy of the bug out that I enjoyed as well. Thank you. Stephen hunter is a great author are you are right about his books. I also like Time to kill, Pale horse coming, and the day before midnight (this one does not involve the swaggers, or anyone from his previous books) but it does keeps you reading. |
