Fieldcraft Book recommendations

[JacobJ]

I'm looking for some good books on primitive survival, disaster preparedness, food storage and recipe books.(Maybe a country living type book.) I only have a couple of Tom Brown survival books and I'm looking to increase my knowledge. What do you recommend and what should I stay away from?

Thanks,
Jacob

 

[teknikallysekure]

Re: Book recommendations

Check out SAS Survival guide by John "Lofty" Wiseman it's great.

 

[kraigWY]

Re: Book recommendations

Get a copy of Fur Fish & Game mag. at your local book store. It advertises all sorts of the books you are asking about.

 

[JacobJ]

Re: Book recommendations

COURAGEWOLF-Thanks I'll check it out.

kraigWY-I can find dozens of books without buying a copy of Fur Fish & Game magazine. What I'm attempting to do is not waste my time and money on books that are poorly written with scant or just plain bad information. Do you have any book titles that you would recommend?

Thanks,
Jacob

 

[teknikallysekure]

Re: Book recommendations

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jacob J</div><div class="ubbcode-body">COURAGEWOLF-Thanks I'll check it out.

kraigWY-I can find dozens of books without buying a copy of Fur Fish & Game magazine. What I'm attempting to do is not waste my time and money on books that are poorly written with scant or just plain bad information. Do you have any book titles that you would recommend?

Thanks,
Jacob </div></div>

How to stay alive in the woods is an awesome book that was written in the 1950's, but I think it tends to show it's age in some places where resources were probably a little more wildly plentiful back in the day animal population wise. Depending on where you live this could be perfectly acceptable, or confusing.

It's got some got a lot of good little tricks though. For the basics stuff it's hard to go wrong with the Boyscouts books. They're written for kids so you'd have to be a real idiot not to understand them

and they include all kinds of general woodsmanship and survival skills.

Great stuff.

 

[links0311]

Re: Book recommendations

The Encyclopedia of Country Living is an awesome book that I would recommend to everyone. Covers a range of topics and is well written. I also really like Patriots by John Rawles. It's a how to survive the end of the world book with some story line mixed it. In it he talks about food storage, fuel storage, home defense, and much more.

 

[K_Mac]

Re: Book recommendations

+1 to the SAS Survival Guide. I also like the Patriots but its mostly story line based and not as much of a how to book, still good though. The best part about the Patriots is it gives you characters and situations that most can relate to. Two more story line based are One Second After by William R Forstchen and Lights Out by David Crawford, both EMP based.

I'm waiting on my copy of The Encyclopedia of Country Living, really looking forward to this one. Also another book similar to this is Back to Basics.

 

[JacobJ]

Re: Book recommendations

Thanks to all for the recommendations. I decided to order both the SAS Survival Guide and The Encyclopedia of Country Living.

Thanks,
Jacob

 

[Ghogs Nightmare]

Re: Book recommendations

Foxfire?

 

[JacobJ]

Re: Book recommendations

Ghogs Nightmare- Thanks, that looks like quite a series of books.

Jacob