The people on RPOL are a wildly creative bunch.  I'm looking for your help.  This is the in game situation...  You are a prepper facing some hopefully distant emergency.  You have books on how to store food and water.  You have books of survival fieldcraft.  You have books on first aid.  You have books on emergency evacuation a.k.a. bugging out.

   What two books would you have on your survivalist bookshelf that most people wouldn't think of adding to theirs.  Please list titles, authors, and the reasons why you would include them.

   In advance, I thank you for your help in this.

In reply to Misty Reynolds (msg # 1):




Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, I think the reasons are pretty obvious, what survivalist would think to have that on their shelf?

:P

In reply to Misty Reynolds (msg # 1):

This is generally a more locale-based suggestion, but I would have a book that would identify local flora and fauna.  Most of these provide both regional (temperate, desert, etc.) information as well as more specialized local information (such as some things that might only exist in a very specific area/radius).

Don't know the authors or publishers, but there are usually a lot to choose from with these items.

^This.  If you're preparing to live off the land, having some kind of guide to edible and/or poisonous plants in your area would be critical.  And it would be EXTREMELY area-specific.  There are a lot of plants in the deserts of the Western US that would never make it into a guide to edible plants for Florida, or even the Midwest, just like there'd be a lot of plants in either of those locations that wouldn't be present in the desert.

Well ...if you have a copy 'the anarchists cookbook' despite its reputation can prove useful.  a friend of mine took it camping and used some of the techniques not to 'make bombs' but to start fires at camp.

Also cannot remember the name but there was one a few years ago about redneck inventions that I thought was interesting.  Like how to make an improvised fire pit with one log to cook on, and it just seemed full of interesting 'macguyverisms'

Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery <- such a good book
Where There Is No Doctor
Boston's Gun Bible
Possum Living
Boy Scout Handbook

A more complete list is available here:
http://www.survivalblog.com/bookshelf.html
This message was last edited by the user at 18:38, Mon 14 Apr 2014.

In reply to katisara (msg # 6):

That is a very good list of survival oriented books.  Several of them will be in the team equipment stash.  However, I was looking for thinking a little more out of the box.