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What I have is :

When Technology Fails by Stein

SAS Survival Handbook by Wiseman

Encyclopedia of Country Living by Emery

Square Foot Gardening by Bartholomew

Cookin with Home Storage by Layton

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Good ones.
I have 3 of them.
Will check out the other two.
( glad to see you back more often btw )
Regards

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Not realy a survival manual type of book , but more a way of life of people in southern Appalachia.
I've got the entire set , bought them after getting tired of trying to find the books at the public library .The books are always getting stolen expecialy the one on moonshine making . #1 most stolen book in libraries I believe.


" The Foxfire books are a series of anthologies of articles from Foxfire magazine. The first book of the series was published in 1972. As of 2004, the most recent is Foxfire 12; also as of that date, there are nearly nine million copies of the various books in print.

The series is an effort to document the lifestyle, culture, and skills of people in southern Appalachia in a mixture of how-to information and first-person narratives and oral history. Topics covered in the books include apple butter, banjos, basket weaving, beekeeping, butter churning, corn shucking, dulcimers, faith healing, fiddle making, haints, ginseng cultivation, 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.

Eight of the first nine of the books were edited by Eliot Wigginton, a high school teacher at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, who set up the Foxfire Fund, based on articles his students had written that were previously published in magazine form. The magazine was named after foxfire, the bioluminescent fungi sometimes seen in a forest. The magazine was founded in 1966 by Wigginton, who was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1989.

Though conceived primarily as a sociological work, the books, particularly the early ones, were a commercial success as instructional works. Members of the back-to-the-land movement used them as a blueprint for their attempts to return to a life of simplicity. The publication is an imprint of Random House and has become a project of Rabun County, Georgia High School."

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All the Tom Brown books. Long-time fan.

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Foxfire books are good. The scandal turned me off. I read 1 through 3, before moving on. Another good book, although a novel, of southern Appalachian traditional living is Cold Mountain. Although the author is a liberal channeling liberal memes, the book still, in spite of himself, shows southern Appalachian mountain people in the honorable manner that they deserve - as opposed to the continual smear job delivered by urbanized and wealthy Jews in Hollywood -- and seems to be very well researched for those now nearly lost techniques of self-sufficient living.

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"The Tracker" (the story of Tom Brown - he is not the author) is truly an eye-opening book. A worthy read -- very interesting.

"Wilderness Survival Skills" (Naked into the Wilderness) by the Mc Phersons is another great book. Everything from brain-tanning to making your own recurve bow.

"The ABCs of Reloading" - best book I've found that concisely and thoroughly teaches the art of reloading / bullet casting.

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Awesome and very useful book. I might have to repurchase in hardcover 'cause I use it so much.

Another awesome book. Revolutionized my garden techniques, though I ended up evolving some different techniques to deal with bigger plants (indeterminate tomatoes the most notable example).

Some favorite books I keep in my library:

Gardening bent
Solar Gardening by Poisson and Poisson -- detailed book on intensive gardening year round in the U.S. using low-tech season extension methods.
Getting the Most from Your Garden by Rodale Books -- Essentially Square Foot Gardening on steroids--advanced techniques of intensive gardening.
Growing Fruits and Vegetables Organically by Rodale Books -- the most comprehensive single gardening book that I own; I don't think I've ever not been able to locate info about even the most obscure vegetable in this book.

Food bent
Sprout It! by Meyerowitz -- about seed sprouting
Lovin' Dutch Ovens by Larsen -- I use these recipes quite a bit in summer when there is no WAY that I want to further heat up the house by cooking in the kitchen.

Survival Prep
Emergency Preparedness and Survival Guide by Backwoods Home

Miscellaneous
The New Healing Yourself by Gardner -- Natural remedies
Make Your House Do the Housework by Aslett -- May not seem that this belongs as part of this library, but details techniques, building materials, and design choices that can save money, time, and maintenance further down the road. I'm actually on my third copy now because every time I lend it to a friend it doesn't come back.
The $50 and Up Underground House Book by Oehler -- Kind of a fringe book about building your home underground and thereby capitalizing on that constant soil temp to keep you cool in summer and warmer in winter. No $20-$30k geothermal heat pump required! I figure if we have to bug out to our undeveloped land, then this will be the type of starter home we will have to build.

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Check out Ruth Stout. Oldie but way good.

scyth

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I cannot recommend this one enough. If you stumble across this at a used bookstore, grab it, even if you already have it, so you can loan it it a good friend (who will never give it back). This opened my eyes to so many possibilities.

I'll add two to the list:

Back To Basics: How To Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills, by Reader's Digest. While it doesn't go into too much depth on any given subject, it covers nearly everything.

Gardening When It Counts, by Steve Solomon. This guy founded Territorial Seeds, and also wrote Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades He covers a lot of ground, so to speak, like "why you don't want to plow, but if you're itching to use that mini tractor you bought, here's how to do it", and he goes into why some seeds are so expensive and others so cheap. Mainly it's about how to grow food in tough times when you don't have 10 hours a day to spend gardening. It's time for me to read that one again.

And while it isn't a how-to or survival book, read The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollen. It's an engrossing book about where our food comes from (hint: we are made of corn).

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www.resist.com/The%20$50%20and%20up%20Underground%20House%20Book. pdf

still looking for this one, this has made to # 1 on my FIND list
2 months ago i finally found " Stalking The Wild Asparagus " by Euell Gibbons

also big on my find list is " The Forager's Harvest "

the food is out there in the wild, if you know what to look for
when TSHTF
i figure most people will be too citified and scared to walk into the woods/bush and try to survive

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"Where there is no Doctor" and "Where there is no Dentist". Both available as free downloads.