Emergency,
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OUTDOOR & SURVIVAL SKILLS Books
Learn necessary skills here, from knot tying and wayfinding to communications and urban survival. Some of the medical and military books also have great survival information.
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The Trapper's Bible
Tracking: A Blueprint for Learning How
Wilderness Wayfinding
Emergency Survival Communications
How To Live Without Electricity - And LIKE
It
Living Well on Practically
Nothing
Gem SAS Survival Guide
Ragnar's
Urban Survival
The Book of Outdoor
Knots
Live Off the Land in the City
and Country
Buckshot's Modern Trapping Guide
Wild Edibles of Missouri
Best of The Backwoodsman
Life After Doomsday
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Trapping can be a rewarding and lucrative hobby... even more so when you have the satisfaction of making and setting the traps yourself. The traps, snares and pathguards detailed here can be constructed out of the most basic materials. Book includes pest snares, large animal snares and transplant traps for moving animals from one location to another, plus instructions on camp alarms that alert you to intruders and deadly pathguards that could save your life. This book by Dale Martin is softcover, measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", and is illustrated. 72 pages.
This is an excellent book on tracking written by Jack Kearney, a retired U.S. Border Patrol Agent. The author earned his reputation as one of the best in the business for tracking man through rugged wilderness, and this easy-to-read guide is loaded with the secrets of identifying tracks, determining direction and age, utilizing sun angle, noting different types of sign, following non-visible trails and much more. Although this book concentrates on tracking humans, the same principles apply to tracking and hunting game as well. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", softcover, photos and illustrations, 164 pages.
This book is a handy, easy-to-follow guide to finding your way in the forest, mountains, desert, jungle or any wild environment. Through non-technical descriptions and the author's colorful anecdotes, you'll unravel the mystery of topo maps and compasses and learn such tried-and-true land navigation techniques as contouring, dead reckoning, triangulation and terrain association. You will also learn how to build emergency shelters quickly, find food and water, forecast weather and administer first aid under primitive conditions. Written by Bob Newman, softcover, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", photos, illustrations, 160 pages.
Emergency Survival Communications
Author Dave Ingram offers a complete, up-to-date look dealing with one of the most important areas of preparedness, communications. The ability to receive accurate and timely information during times of crisis can be lifesaving, and this book covers topics in depth, such as shortwave, amateur radio, citizen's band, federal services, GPS, crystal radio, scanners, satellite receivers, antennas, weather services, overseas news services, necessary equipment, how to choose the right equipment, how to power your system(s) with many alternate forms of energy, and source lists for all of the above. Comprehensive, well written, and easily understood. Softcover, 182 pages, photos and illustrations, 8 1/2" x 11".
How To Live Without Electricity
This book by Anita Evangelista entitled " How To Live Without Electricity , AND LIKE IT ", has lots of great ideas on living off the power grid. Has explanations on calculating actual power usage; employing alternate energy sources; cooking with gas, wood and solar heat; heating and cooling your home; refrigerating food without electricity; maintaining radio communications; generating power and recharging batteries and much more. A list of mail order sources is included, as well as sources for other interesting books and magazines. Softcover, 158 pages, photos and illustrations, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Living Well On Practically Nothing,
Revised
This new, revised book by Edward H. Romney is for people who need to live well on a lot less money. If you have been fired, demoted, retired, divorced, widowed, bankrupted, or swindled - or if you just want to quit your job and remain financially self-reliant - this book is for you. In it are hundreds of tips, secrets and necessary skills for living well on little money. Chapters include living on $12,00 a year, saving $37,500 a year, living on no money at all, new career or business, low-cost computers, relocating, saving on utilities or doing without them, and protecting your investments and making them grow. From cover to cover, this book is stocked with proven methods for saving money on shelter, food, education, clothing, transportation, entertainment, health care and more. Learn how you can live happily, comfortably and with complete financial freedom. 8 1/2" x 11", softcover, photos and illustrations, 193 pages.
An excellent, go-anywhere survival guide that covers all aspects... planning, equipment, water, climate, food sources, improvised tools and shelters, how and when to travel, reading maps and weather signs, survival at sea, health & first aid, rescue signaling, and more. Well illustrated, well-written, and a MUST for anyone who ventures outdoors or would like to be prepared for any type of emergency. This book will tuck easily into your pack or emergency kit. 384 pages, illustrations and drawings, measures 3 1/2" x 4 3/4", hardcover.
When the tap's run dry, the supermarket shelves have been ransacked, and the power is off... whether due to natural disasters or civil unrest, those who have not prepared will live as refugees at the mercy of the government, IF they can survive the crisis at all. Author Ragnar Benson debunks the myth that the only way to survive such crisis is with a retreat in the mountains, and shows how properly prepared city dwellers can make it through any emergency. Discussions of food, water, shelter, weapons, barter, nursing care, and other important survival tactics are drawn from the experiences of those who've suffered through war, famine, natural disasters and civil unrest in urban areas around the world. Softcover, 192 pages, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", photos and illustrations.
This book by Peter Owen covers the basics of choosing and caring for rope, and gives very complete, detailed and superbly illustrated descriptions of how to tie over 70 different knots. This book explains a little of the history behind each knot and tells precisely which knot to use in a specific situation. Types of knots covered include stopper knots, bends, loops, running knots, shortenings, hitches, and fishing knots. A glossary is included, as well as a handy chart that lists the knots by the activities where they're most commonly used. 139 pages, illustrated, softcover, measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/4".
Live Off the Land In The City And Country
This new book by Ragnar Benson deals with survival living in both rural and urban areas, covering topics ranging from locating and preserving food to weapons and generators. Forsaking fancy equipment and expensive retreats, the author has developed a unique survival program that stresses common-sense fundamentals and ingenuity. Loaded with old-time tips and techniques, "how-to" photographs and diagrams, and up-to-date advice on energy supplies, equipment and caching, firearms and hunting. 262 pages, hard-cover, 6" x 8 3/4".
Buckshot's
Modern Trapper's Guide
Learn the in's and outs of modern-day trapping from author Bruce "Buckshot" Hemming. This book discusses everything from locating animals, to safety, to selling your pelts for the best prices. Learn how to trap on land and in water, set snares, how to prepare pelts, increase your trapping success, and a few recipes for preparing game meat. A must-have for anyone who's considering trapping for pleasure, profit or survival. Softcover, 175 pages, measures 9" x 6".
This is an excellent book by Jan Phillips that shows in splendid detail the edible plants of Missouri. Liberally illustrated with line drawings and beautiful color prints, it shows where to find, how to identify, and how to prepare everything from arrowhead to lichens. Scientific names are included, as well as cautions about what is NOT edible. Even if you don't live in Missouri or the Midwest, you'll want this just for the great illustrations. A great book for budding naturalists, too, as a field guide to identifying various plants. Softcover, 245 pages, measures 6" x 9".
Best of the Backwoodsman, Volume I & II
No matter how much of a survivalist or outdoorsman you are, I can just about guarantee that you'll find some kind of tip in here that you'd never heard or thought of! Fishing techniques, pack frames, jerky, tipis, natural dyes, shelters, dutch ovens, a stove from 3 hinges & a bolt, box traps, campfire oven, home tanning, survival foods, food dehydrator, backyard fish tank, how to graft trees, homemade vise, frontier cutlery, Indian bows and arrows, throwing sticks, bolas, blowguns, crossbow, soapstone bullet molds, sighting in your muzzleloader, build a powder horn, old-time recipes & remedies, build a crawdad trap, build a Betty lamp, make a 6 volt DC soldering iron, make your own milk paint, and MUCH more. Filled with drawings and diagrams, this is in magazine style. Softcover, 78 pages, measures 8" x 10".
If you're looking for a great book on being prepared for ANY disaster, this is it! While it covers, in detail, all you'll need to know about surviving a nuclear disaster, the information it contains pertains to making it comfortably through everything from a tornado to a blizzard to a wildfire. Filled with lots of accurate, detailed facts, charts and maps on nuclear shelters, drift patterns, and more. This book by Bruce D. Clayton, Ph.D. is filled with PRACTICAL, easy-to-understand and well-thought-out plans on exactly what you and your family need to know to survive. This is truly one of the best books I've seen on being prepared for any kind of disaster... while the title of the book may sound fatalistic, you will actually feel better after you read it, because you'll be armed with the knowledge you need to make it through nearly anything. Covers shelter, food, medicine, communications, details of a Kearny air pump for your shelter, a homemade Kearney fallout meter, rate of decay calculations, and much, much more. Filled with copious footnotes and resources, too, this book belongs in every home! Softcover, 185 pages, measures 8.25" x 10.75".