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(1) The Foxfire Book: Covers lots of essential skills that could be very useful, such as: hog dressing; log cabin building; mountain crafts and foods; planting by the signs; snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing; moonshining; and other affairs of plain living

(2) Some sort of comprehensive argriculture/horticulture book: Knowing how to grow sufficient food to sustain my family/clan will be essential - this is beyond the knowledge I had growing up in rural MO with an annual large family garden.

(3) U.S. Army Survival Manual: covers building emergency shelters, setting small game traps, improvising tools, etc. etc. Excellent all around information.


I think those are good books, The US Army Survival Book has a ton of good info, but I like the SAS Encyclopedia of Survival by Barry Davies (ISBN 0-9666771-5-3 if anyone is looking for it). I think there is more diverse information in the book and has a lot of color pictures (which makes me happy) I can't figure anything out with a picture...