Awesome thread Preppermama!! I can't wait to hear what everybody else says. For me it's just one at the moment. Tom Brown's Field Guide. I know I should have the SAS Guide and it's on my list (before everybody starts chewin' me out).
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This is a discussion on Question: What are the top 3 prepping books you wouldn't want to be without? within the General Talk forums, part of the General Discussion category; Here's my top 3 prepper books I wouldn't want to be without. What are yours? 1. SAS Survival Guide: SAS Survival Guide 2E (Collins Gem): ...
Here's my top 3 prepper books I wouldn't want to be without. What are yours?
1. SAS Survival Guide: SAS Survival Guide 2E (Collins Gem): For any climate, for any situation: John 'Lofty' Wiseman: 9780061992865: Amazon.com: Books
2. Foraging New England: (or any other well-rounded foraging book specific to the region I'm in) - Foraging New England: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants from Maine to Connecticut: Tom Seymour: 9780762709540: Amazon.com: Books
3. Back to Basics: Back to Basics: Editors of Reader's Digest: 9780895770868: Amazon.com: Books
Awesome thread Preppermama!! I can't wait to hear what everybody else says. For me it's just one at the moment. Tom Brown's Field Guide. I know I should have the SAS Guide and it's on my list (before everybody starts chewin' me out).
I will fight until my last breath. I will bleed every drop.
"Curious George and the High Voltage Fence" would have to be up there some wheres...
The SAS Guide is definitely a good read.
punch
Last edited by punch; 12-06-2012 at 05:46 PM.
I know this thread has been done before over in the subforum, but we have a lot of new faces here. I am wondering what our new members like.
Last edited by preppermama; 12-06-2012 at 11:01 PM.
The first three books of the Fox Fire series has all kinds of good stuff.
"The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking"
But seriously (I'm in a weird mood tonight), here is my list:
1. Emergency War Surgery: BARNES & NOBLE | Emergency War Surgery by NATO | Paperback
2. Where there is no Dentist: BARNES & NOBLE | Where There Is No Dentist by Murray Dickson | Paperback
3. Where there is no Doctor: BARNES & NOBLE | When There Is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times by Gerard S. Doyle | NOOK Book (eBook), Paperback
and to add...
4. Birth Emergency Skills Training: Birth Emergency Skills Training, (0979002001), Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg, Textbooks - Barnes & Noble
At least 3 ex-SAS troopers have been in the news over the years for committing suicide with depression, so that serves as a reminder to us all that although physical toughness and skills are great, they count for ZILCH if we haven't got the right survival mindset to back them up.
The moral therefore is to develop the proper mindset by adopting whatever philosophies help us to achieve it or else we'll be screwed in a SHTF world.
For example Bear Grylls uses the Bible as a 'Survival Manual'-
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