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This list of the best survival books below is made entirely of books I own and have read. Well, almost all of them have been read. Some like "Emergency War Surgery" keep getting put on the back of the pile, but every other one has been evaluated by me and I believe that these books are a tremendous resource to preppers and survivalists not to mention homesteaders or anyone looking to be more self-sufficient. This to me is just the beginning of your library of must-have prepper books.

33 Best Survival Books

November 18, 2020

There is another couple of people on the show, Chip and Agnes Hailstone. Agnes is a native Inupiaq and together with Chip they have 7 children. Chip and Agnes don’t have it easy either although they do live in a small town. Everything I see them do is geared toward their survival. Agnes isn’t on Facebook updating her friends with her latest hairdo or sending selfies of her bottom half in spandex after a great thigh workout in the gym. Agnes is out shooting gophers from a boat with iron sites. Agnes is pulling in fish from nets, carving up a moose or shooting seal. Agnes is one tough woman.In one of the episodes, and I am going from memory here, I believe they had gone to their fishing cabin up river for their annual fishing trip. It is this one time each year that they must catch the food they are going to eat for the rest of the winter so the entire family is involved. The episode showed her and her children all working to catch and clean and dry fish. In one she was making a vest out of a seal pelt as for a gift for her father and almost every episode she has some animal on the floor cleaning and butchering it. It was at the end of one of these episodes as she looked with pride on the achievements of her family while the same time looking at the mess said, “The mess of success”. It struck me that if we have the grid down, SHTF, TEOTWAWKI event we are thinking is possible, that our success will be measured by the same barometer. We won’t have fancy Lexus’s sitting in the driveway with a big red bow on it Christmas morning . (Where in the world do they get those bows anyway?) We won’t be coming home with raises or bonuses. You won’t be selling the Johnson house or getting a big commission. Our kids won't be in traveling sports leagues.

The Mess of Success

September 12, 2014

Everyone visualizes their “end of the world” scenario. For some it is the Wi-Fi being down for more than an hour, for others it is more serious, the stuff of biblical writings, history, stories, legends, and movies ad nauseam, the article title here is from an ancient sci-fi movie.

Panic in the Year Zero

October 31, 2020

There are a ton of ways we can help cool our bodies and little changes to activity and habits that can lower the heat in our homes, too, but for this article, I’m going to concentrate on the dwelling space itself.

Beating The Heat Old-School Southern Summer Style

byR. Ann Parris

July 6, 2016

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