Posted: 3/25/2010 11:14:49 PM EDT
| What books are required reading to prepare for SHTF or would be beneficial to have on hand post apocalypse? (zombie apocalypse, complete social collapse, etc.) |
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Foxfire series. Might as well learn something useful.
From Wiki; The books cover a wide range of topics. Some of which are: apple butter, banjos, basket weaving, beekeeping, butter churning, corn shucking, dulcimers, faith healing, Appalachian folk magic, fiddle making, haints, American ginseng cultivation, long rifle and flintlock making, hide tanning, hog dressing, hunting tales, log cabin building, moonshining, midwives, old-time burial customs, planting "by the signs", preserving foods, sassafras tea, snake handling and lore, soap making, spinning, square dancing, wagon making, weaving, wild food gathering, witches, and wood carving. |
| Anything that teaches you to live as people in this country did in the 1800s. That is what a full scale, worst case scenario type of SHTF situation would bring about. We'd all being living like they did on Little House on the Prairie. So we might as well learn how to do things the way folks of that era did it. |
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http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf I just happen to have it in front of me because I have been working on a paper for school.  I'm sure I have more. |
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These are the most comprehensive lists I have found
Here: http://www.survivalblog.com/2009/07/survey_results_your_favorite_b.html And Here: http://www.survivalblog.com/bookshelf.html |
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Foxfire, Guerillas in the mist, lots of books from paladin/delta press
Believe it or not, military FM's. They cover survival, first aid, camo, ect.. Our dept has tons they just put out for all to take before they throw them out because new books are out, just because it was printed in the 1980's dosen't mean the info isn't good now. I took three of each you never know if you'll need to teach the skills you learn in this life to others in the next, post-SHTF. |
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Zombie Survival Guide KJ Bible Book of Mormon Apocalypse Chow Patriots Lord of the Flies One Second After The Long Walk How To Think Like Einstein Letters From a Nut Animal Farm Lone Survivor The Road Hatchet Last of Breed What to do WTSHTF The 5000 Year Leap Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven. GREAT survival manual, disguised as fiction. 
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I need to add a couple and rearrange the list, but this is what I have now
http://www.everycitizenasoldier.org/id13.html |
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I need to add a couple and rearrange the list, but this is what I have now http://www.everycitizenasoldier.org/id13.html I didn't know you were on here brother. I love your website. |
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Zombie Survival Guide KJ Bible Book of Mormon Apocalypse Chow Patriots Lord of the Flies One Second After The Long Walk How To Think Like Einstein Letters From a Nut Animal Farm Lone Survivor The Road Hatchet Last of Breed What to do WTSHTF The 5000 Year Leap Wow, good ideas for reading in there for just right now 
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Quoted: A good copy of the Bible This, and the complete collection of Gary Larson's "The Far Side". For triple purpose I suggest Uncle John's Bathroom Readers which could substitute for 80 grit T.P./ fire-starter when you've finished reading the useless yet intriguing info. |
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Foxfire series. Might as well learn something useful. From Wiki; The books cover a wide range of topics. Some of which are: apple butter, banjos, basket weaving, beekeeping, butter churning, corn shucking, dulcimers, faith healing, Appalachian folk magic, fiddle making, haints, American ginseng cultivation, long rifle and flintlock making, hide tanning, hog dressing, hunting tales, log cabin building, moonshining, midwives, old-time burial customs, planting "by the signs", preserving foods, sassafras tea, snake handling and lore, soap making, spinning, square dancing, wagon making, weaving, wild food gathering, witches, and wood carving. That is a neat set of books. I hadn't heard of them before, now I want them. Do they have lots of illustrations? |