Product Description

Survival expert Cody Lundin is back with a no-holds-barred guide for city slickers on how to survive the next disaster, whether natural or man-made. Lundin offers a blunt and honest account of what every family needs to prepare for possible emergencies, from shelter, water, food, cooking, survival kits, and sanitation, to the emotional and mental capabilities that keep us from falling into full panic mode. Lundin delves into the making of the self-reliant mind, and helps people to understand not only what physical resources are necessary, but which mental and emotional resources are vital for survival as well. This book uses commonsense techniques and knowledge that will help anyone who wants to explore the idea of becoming more self-reliant.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29703 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 450 pages

Customer Reviews

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I've always been concerned over how to survive in times of disrupted energy, food or water supplies. This book provides excellent advice in preparing for, and managing, survival when 'all hell breaks loose'. This is not a survival book in the bushcraft style, but it offers sensible and practical advice for your survival in times of power failure or scarcity of food and water.
A brilliant book.

excellent
I got half a dozen books on survival issues. This is my favourite, so far. It's all about how to survive at home, it's written by someone who is a survival instructor, who lived on the streets for a while and who has practiced everything he preaches - for years.

Of some of the others I bought, The Self-Sufficiency Handbook is mainly for the UK and has excellent basic (but not too basic) suggestions that I found most useful, with sections on recycling, going off-mains including generating your own power, organic gardening, animal husbandry, brewing, and preserving produce.

Disaster Survival is compact and covers a very wide range of disasters but is boring. The First Aid Manual covered a wide range of accidents and had lots of pictures, which was good. Organize for Disaster was somewhat over-basic and US-centric but might be worth getting out of the library for a look (if they stock it). Life After Doomsday was so extreme I had to have some soothing rice-pudding while reading it, but if you have any reason to suspect long-term survival problems and looters/attackers, it is amazingly logical, sensible and practical.

This book and the Life After Doomsday book were the least boring to read and therefore their advice is most likely to be remembered, and hence useful, in case of need. However, both require weeks of expenditure and preparation.