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A friend gave me a copy of "RAGNAR'S ACTION ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE AND PROVEN TECHNIQUES" and so far I have found it quite informative as well as entertaining. Any of you folk have any books you highly recommend? Like many I have much "data" archived on my pc but I do love a bound/published book I can read in the bathroom.

I'm gonna ask a stupid question. Books pertaining to what ?

The Making of Tools - Alex Weygers

Gardening for Dummies

BOHICA

And the Bible...

Palladin wrote:And the Bible...

looking for books I haven't read before to be honest. The one in olde english where all the "s"'s looked like "f"'s gave me a killer headache for the first hundred pages or so.

How to do stuff, how to make stuff kinda things. General type knowledge from metallurgy to how to skin a alligator. How to build an igloo. making things from bamboo. etc. If you were dropped off 1000 miles from know-where with minimal supplies what 10 books would you like to have to homestead kinda books. If you were shipwrecked like robinson crusoe type of books.

OakRidgeStars wrote:

read that to. As well as the Tanakh, N'viim, K'Tuvim, book or morman, holy tabernacle, freemasons bible, satanic bible, bhagavad gita, shinto, daoist, gnostic, celtic, greek, roman, etc.
There is no knowledge that is not power... some of it's pretty f'n boring to read though.

kanata67 wrote:

Palladin wrote:And the Bible...

looking for books I haven't read before to be honest. The one in olde english where all the "s"'s looked like "f"'s gave me a killer headache for the first hundred pages or so.

How to do stuff, how to make stuff kinda things. General type knowledge from metallurgy to how to skin a alligator. How to build an igloo. making things from bamboo. etc. If you were dropped off 1000 miles from know-where with minimal supplies what 10 books would you like to have to homestead kinda books. If you were shipwrecked like robinson crusoe type of books.

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I sometimes just log onto the internet, go to yahoo and typ in "build your own [fill in the blank]". Never disapoints.

Maybe a book on Waco given it anniversary last Tuesday.

dorminWS wrote:

kanata67 wrote:

Palladin wrote:And the Bible...

looking for books I haven't read before to be honest. The one in olde english where all the "s"'s looked like "f"'s gave me a killer headache for the first hundred pages or so.

How to do stuff, how to make stuff kinda things. General type knowledge from metallurgy to how to skin a alligator. How to build an igloo. making things from bamboo. etc. If you were dropped off 1000 miles from know-where with minimal supplies what 10 books would you like to have to homestead kinda books. If you were shipwrecked like robinson crusoe type of books.

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I sometimes just log onto the internet, go to yahoo and typ in "build your own [fill in the blank]". Never disapoints.

you obviously never dealt with a "certain cookbook" where if published online a few key steps were omitted with less than satisfactory results. I have found most internet recipes take good knowledge just so you can identify what steps are left out. Not sure if it's intentional disinformation or simple stupidity of the authors. It takes a loooong time to pay to replace the siding on one side of the house when you are 12 regardless.

I will agree with you for most turn of the century techniques like skinning, trapping, hunting, fishing, etc. On the other hand I know I can read a book by candle/maglite when a hurricane takes out my power for a month, which has happened to me personally,... accessing the internet can be kind of a problem in such times.

Almost any Stephen Hunter book...Dead Zero and ISniper are the latest and up to his usual standard of a ripping good tale with Bob Lee Swagger...

Vahunter wrote:

The cover of that garbage is enough for me. I'll read the back of the cereal box first...

Old thread, but I've got a book recommendation along the lines of what you described.

"Surviving Off Off-Grid" (not a typo) by Michael Bunker. Just look it up on Amazon and start reading the reviews.

This book was first published in the late 1800's and was writted by Daniel Carter Beard, who later helped establish the Boy Scouts in America. It has lots of "how to" stuff. There are a few non-politically correct passages by today's current culture, but one should consider when it was written.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Boys-Han ... 79234490#_

How about this one: http://www.amazon.com/Gonzo-Gizmos-Proj ... 29&sr=8-14

This is one of my favorites: http://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Ballisti ... t_ep_dpt_1

And I just picked up this one (by the same author): http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Pyroman ... t_ep_dpt_2

Take a look at the "Firefox" series. My dad had all of them and really enjoyed learning hillbilly technology. Maybe I'll dig them out and have a read this winter.

Swamp7cat

+1 for the Firefox series...

That should be required SHTF reading.

I'm reading this one right now:

http://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-I ... 0912986212

This is another great read: http://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Gate-F ... 0061655546