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Survival Guide PDFs – Table of Contents
- Military, Combat and Tactical (51 downloads)
- Wilderness Survival (51 downloads)
- Food and Food Storage PDFs (222 downloads)
- Homestead Skills (75 downloads)
- Emergency Medicine (42 downloads)
- Security and Defense (27 downloads)
- General Emergency Preparedness and Survival (100 downloads)
- Alternative Energy (2 downloads)
- Water Storage, Treatment, and Resupply (41 downloads)
- Survival Shelters (36 downloads)
- Hygiene and Sanitation (2 downloads)
- Knot Tying (16 downloads)
- Urban Survival (11 downloads)
- Free Survival Guides (15 downloads)
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Military, Combat and Tactical (51)
U.S. Army Survival Field Manuals (7)
- Army-stp21-1-Soldiers-Manual-of-Common-Tasks-Warrior-Skills-Level-1
- Army-stp21-24-Soldiers-Manual-of-Common-Tasks-Warrior-Skills-Level-2-3-and-4
- Army-fm 21-76 Survival Manual
- Army-fm 31-70-Basic-Cold-Weather-Manual
- Army-fm 20-3-Camouflage-Concealment-and-Decoys
- Army-fm 5-103-Survivability
- Army-fm 3-06-Urban-Operations
Special Forces Manuals (4)
- US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook ST 31-91B – PDF
- US Navy Seal Survival Handbook
- Navy-Seal-Physical-Fitness-Guide.pdf
- Ranger Handbook – 2006 – PDF
Self Defense and Hand to Hand Combat (15)
- SAS Self Defense Handbook – John “Lofty” Wiseman
- self defense – how to win in hand to hand fighting
- self defense – long, hei master 21 techniques of silent killing
- self defense – nerve centers and pressure points
- US-Marines-Close-Quarters-Combat-Manual-FMFM-07.pdf
- US-Marine-Corps-Hand-to-Hand-Combat.pdf
- US-Army-Combatives-handtohand-combat-FM-325-150
- Pressure-Points-Military-Hand-to-Hand-Combat-Guide
- Practical-Unarmed-Combat-by-Moshe-Feldenkrais.pdf
- Krav-Maga-Pressure-Points-Military-Hand-to-Hand-Combat-Guide
- ( Hand to Hand: Martial Arts ) Aikido ( revised )
- Combat-Conditioning-Manual-JiuJitsu-Lt-Col-RE-Hanley-USMC.pdf
- Marine-Martial-Arts-Training
- Combat-Survival-Evasion.pdf
- USMC-Kill-or-Get-Killed
Terrorism (2)
Nuclear (3)
Military Trades and Skills (3)
Other Military and Law Enforcement PDFs (17)
- How to find your way – US Army
- Urban Preparation Kit, Part I, On-Body Kit
- FM 21-76-1 Survival-Evasion-Recovery – Military Manual – PDF
- Western Australia Police – Aids To Survival
- USMC-Winter-Survival-Course.pdf
- USMC-Summer-Survival-Course.pdf
- Art of War – PDF
- Guerrilla Warfare
- The Guerrilla and How To Fight Him – PDF
- Total Resistance
- USMC Summer Survival Course Handbook
- FM 4-25.12 (FM 21-10-1) UNIT FIELD SANITATION TEAM
- Physical Security
- Citizens-Homeland-Defense-Guide-I-The-Art-of-Survival.pdf
- Citizens-Homeland-Defense-Guide-II-The-Art-of-Survival.pdf
- 11-Steps-to-Survival-Canada-Emergency-Measurses-Organization.pdf
- Tactical-Ready-Guide.pdf
Wilderness Survival Books (51)
Sheltering (2)
Foraging for Food (15)
- Edible-Wild-Plants.pdf
- Common Edible Mushrooms
- foods foraging – edible insects
- foraging – feldguide of poisonous plants insects snakes of north carolina
- foraging – harvesting acorns
- foraging – hendricks park plant identification guide
- foraging – introduction to plant identification
- foraging – plant identification
- foraging – plant terminologyforaging – poison hemlock
- foraging – poisonous plants
- foraging – useful wild plants chapters 1-2
- foraging – useful wild plants chapter 3
- foraging – useful wild plants chapter 4
- foraging – useful wild plants chapter 5
- foraging – wild food and foraging foraging – yaupon holly
Medicinal Plants (14)
- WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants-Vol-3.pdf
- WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants-Vol-2.pdf
- WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants.pdf
- Useful-Wild-Plants-of-the-United-States-and-Canada.pdf
- survival-how-to-make-herbal-preparations.pdf
- Survival-Edible-Medicinal-Plants.pdf
- MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition
- Herbal-PDRsmall.pdf
- Healing-Pets-With-Alternative-Medicine.pdf
- EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANTS.doc
- Crow-Indian-Recipes-Herbal-Medicines.pdf
- Anticancer-Therapeutics.pdf
- A Complete Handbook of Nature Cure
- WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants-Volume-4.pdf
Snaring and Hunting (3)
- Deadfalls and Snares – AR Harding
- Traps and Snares – Tangle, Dangle, Strangle or Mangle
- Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
Cold Weather Survival (5)
- Alpine Living for SAR
- Cold_Weather_Survival_rev2.qxd
- Cold Weather Survival
- Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
- Survival-In-ColdWeather-Areas
General Wilderness Survival Guides (4)
- Wilderness Survival Skills.doc
- Survival-Wilderness-Survival.pdf
- Adventurer-Woodstravel-Module.pdf
- Survive! A Guide To Survival in Any Situation
Bushcraft (8)
- the-ten-bushcraft-books.pdf
- Australian Bushcraft PDF
- Flintknapping PDF book
- The-Book-of-Camplore-and-Woodcraft-Dan-Beard.pdf
- Bushcraft-Scouting-Woodlore-Notes.pdf
- Woodsman-Ship.pdf
- fire – bow drill
- fire – tinder fungus
Food and Food Storage PDFs (220)
Food Storage (2)
Gardening and Food Production (74)
- Vegetable-Garden-Encyclopedia.pdf
- Test-The-Soil-First.pdf
- The-Amateur-Garden.pdf
- Watermelon Cultivation and Post Harvest Handling
- composting – how to make fertilizer
- a compost guide for using
- dirt – building soil organic matter with organic amendments
- dirt – dry land farming crops tech for arid regions
- dirt – soil composition
- dirt – soil its not dirt
- dirt – soils-overview
- dirt-know your soil
- how to – construct a simple garden pond
- how to – designing your garden
- gardening – a hand operated winnow
- gardening – alfalfa gardening – allium
- gardening – asparagus
- gardening – backyard greenhouse
- gardening – bamboo
- gardening – basic seed saving
- gardening – broccoli
- gardening – companion planting chart
- gardening – companion planting
- gardening – continuous harvest
- gardening – cucumber beetle
- gardening – downy mildew
- gardening – fall vegetable gardening
- gardening – field corn
- gardening – garlic
- gardening – ginseng
- gardening – golden ginseng and golden seal
- gardening – green peach aphids on vegetables
- gardening – growing and curing tobacco
- gardening – growing and harvesting wheat by hand
- gardening – growing and harvesting wheat
- gardening – growing grains for livestock
- gardening – growing vegetables in the home garden
- gardening – herbs
- gardening – hops
- gardening – intensive planting methods
- gardening – introduction to organic gardening
- gardening – lemon balm
- gardening – lettuce
- gardening – missouri planting calender
- gardening – onion harvesting
- gardening – peanuts
- gardening – pole beans
- gardening – problems, cucumber beetle
- gardening – problems, european corn borer
- gardening – problems, japanese beetle
- gardening – problems, late blight control
- gardening – problems, pepper maggot
- gardening – pumpkin and winter squash
- gardening – rice
- gardening – saving your own vegetable seeds
- gardening – small plastic greenhouses
- gardening – sweet corn
- gardening – sweet potato production and harvesting
- gardening – sweet potato
- gardening – the amateur gardener
- gardening – tobacco
- gardening – tomatoes
- gardening – vegetable gardening in georgia
- gardening – virginia planting calender
- gardening – weed control
- greenhouse – aphid control
- greenhouse – heating with compost
- greenhouse – herbs
- greenhouse – hoophouse construction
- greenhouse – hot beds and cold frames
- greenhouse – pest management
- greenhouse – root zone heating
- greenhouse – small pvc greenhouse
- greenhouse – thrips control
- greenhouse – vegetables
- greenhouse – whitefly control
Tree Crops (12)
- trees – pollination of fruit trees
- trees – pruning fruit trees
- trees – reproducing fruit trees by graftage
- trees – ten basics of when and how to prune fruit trees
- trees – top working and bridge grafting fruit trees
- trees – training and pruining fruit trees
- trees – training and pruning fruit trees university of california
- trees – fruit tree tips
- trees – grafting and budding of fruit trees
- trees – grafting and propogating fruit trees
- trees – growing temperate trees
- trees – introduction to fruit tree grafting
Permaculture (5)
- permaculture – a beginers guide
- permaculture – agro forestry
- permaculture – companion planting made easy
- permaculture – maple syrup production
- permaculture – welcome to permaculture
Livestock (9)
- livestock – chickens, small scale chicken production
- livestock – chickens, small scale chickens
- livestock – rabbits, cages
- livestock – rabbits, from farm to table
- livestock – rabbits, management
- livestock – rabbits, production
- livestock – rabbits, raising rabbits
- livestock – rabbits, six foot cage
- livestock – rabbits
Hunting and Trapping (5)
- Tricks of Trapping
- trapping – homemade traps and snares
- trapping – tangle dangle strangle or mangle
- trapping – tips tactics and techniques
- trapping – setting snares
Fishing (4)
- fish – aquaponics
- fish – small scale fish farming
- fishing – homemade fishing gear
- fishing – improvised fishing devices
Butchering (12)
- butchering – cutting up a big game carcass
- butchering – deer and wild hogs
- butchering – field care of harvested big game
- butchering – field to freezer venison
- butchering – furriers friend – tanning hides
- butchering – homestead poultry butchering
- butchering – how to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less
- butchering – how to render animal fat
- butchering – preparing wild game for the table
- butchering – skinning wild game
- butchering – small scale poultry processing
- butchering – tanning deer hides
Food Preservation (56)
- Canning – PDF
- Complete Guide to Home Canning – PDF
- PRESERVING GAME MEATS
- Guide 5, Preparing and Canning Poultry, Red Meats, and Seafood
- The Jerky Chef
- Solar Dehydrator.PDF
- Small Scale-Food-Drying-Technologies
- Preserving-Food-Drying-Fruits-And-Vegetables-
- Guide 6, Preparing and Canning Fermented Foods and Pickled Veg
- Canning and Preserving
- Preservation of Fish and Meat
- preserving – american harvest dehydrator cook book
- preserving – ayer@27s preserve book
- preserving – build a large capacity food dehydrator
- preserving – canning and preserving 2
- preserving – canning fruit
- preserving – canning meat poultry and game
- preserving – canning tomatoes
- preserving – canning vegetables
- preserving – cassette fruit dryer
- preserving – cheese making
- preserving – cooking canning cold storage
- preserving – curing pork problems
- preserving – curing pork
- preserving – dehydrating food
- preserving – drying fruits and vegetables
- preserving – drying fruits
- preserving – drying vegetables
- preserving – every step in canning
- preserving – fermented food and pickled vegetables
- preserving – home drying of food
- preserving – home made yeast
- preserving – how to build a solar crop dryer
- preserving – how to make a solar cabinet dryer for agricultural produce
- preserving – how to salt fish
- preserving – jams and jellies
- preserving – jerky
- preserving – leathers and jerkies
- preserving – making jerky
- preserving – movable curing frames
- preserving – pickling fish
- preserving – pickling
- preserving – preservation of foods
- preserving – preserving vegetables by drying and storing
- preserving – preserving wild game poultry and fish
- preserving – processing jams and jellies
- preserving – root cellars
- preserving – small scale drying technologies
- preserving – smoking fish
- preserving – solar food drying
- preserving – solar fruit dryer
- preserving – steps in preparing jams and jellies
- preserving – using and caring for your pressure canner
- preserving – using dried foods
- preserving – virginia ham
- preserving – yogurt
Recipes (9)
- Camping Recipes – PDF
- Dutch Oven & Grill Recipes – PDF
- 1999_Dutch_Oven_Cookbook.pdf
- Jerky Recipes – PDF
- 60 Gift Mixes In-A-Jar Recipe’s
- Boy Scout Cookbook PDF
- The Back Country Recipe Book
- Native-Berry-Recipes
- The-Baby-Food.pdf
Food Preparation (26)
- food – us field manual red meat
- food prep – aging wild game
- food prep – alternate cooking methods
- food prep – animals for food
- food prep – bucket stove
- food prep – cooking with dry beans
- food prep – dutch oven cooking
- food prep – dutch ovens
- food prep – earth friendly food
- food prep – emergency bread
- food prep – emergency
- food for babies
- food prep – enjoy yeast breads
- food prep – expedient cooking
- food prep – fireless cooker
- food prep – food storage cookbook @232
- food prep – how to render animal fat
- food prep – improvised grain mill
- food prep – make your own baking powder
- food prep – outdoor food tips
- food prep – peddle operated grain mill
- food prep – plumber@27s stove
- food prep – rabbit
- food prep – sausage
- food prep – using dried foods
- food prep -food storage cookbook
- food prep- freezer bag meals
Survival Cooking (4)
- cooking – cooking with dry beans
- cooking – solar faqs
- cooking – solar instructions written
- cooking – solar, recipes and cooking tips
Homestead Skills Books (76)
Beekeeping (43)
- bees – 4h beekeeping
- bees – backyard beekeeping
- bees – basic beekeeping
- bees – bee keeping + honey processing
- bees – beekeep in tennessee
- bees – beekeeping and honey production
- bees – beekeeping apiculture
- bees – beekeeping getting started
- bees – beekeeping in denver urban gardens community gardens
- bees – beekeeping natural, simple and successful
- bees – beekeeping
- bees- bees for developent with top bar hives
- bees – best practices
- bees – better beekeeping in top bar hives africa
- bees – build your own top bar hive
- bees – building a better beehive
- bees – building a warre bee hive
- bees – california beekeeping
- bees – friendly beekeeping
- bees – golden mean beekeeping top bar hive
- bees – guide to natural beekeeping
- bees – hexagonal hive plans
- bees – hive startup guide
- bees – how to build a top bar hive
- bees – how to introduce bees to a top bar hive
- bees – how to start beekeeping for free
- bees – integrated top bar hive management
- bees – keeping top bar hives
- bees – making a top bar hive
- bees – natural topbar beekeeping
- bees – parasitic mites
- bees – practical guide
- bees – protecting honey bees from pesticide
- bees – round warre hives
- bees – sustainable livelihood
- bees – sustaining native bee habitat
- bees – the apprentice beekeepers
- bees – the top bar bee hive
- bees – top bar hives for the new zealand backyard
- bees – towards sustainable beekeeping
- bees – warre bee hive plans
- bees – west virginia’s beekeepers guide
- bees – what you don’t know about beekeeping
Other Skills (27)
- Montana Winter Survival Manual – PDF
- Recipe for Making Soap #1 – Text file
- Recipe for Making Soap #2 – Text file
- Wood Burning – PDF
- 1881 Household Cyclopedia – book – PDF
- Morel Mushroom Hunting – PDF
- bushcraft leather work PDF
- Foxfire-One.pdf
- Foxfire-Two.pdf
- Foxfire-Three.pdf
- How To Make Black Powder
- The-Unofficial-MacGyver-HowTo-Handbook-Revised-2nd-Edition.pdf
- The complete guide to home carpentry
- Metal-Forming(2).pdf
- The Household Cyclopedia
- The Handbook For Practical Farmers
- Practical Farming and Gardening
- Rural Tanning Techniques
- sustainability – build your own rocket stove
- sustainability – clay pot making
- sustainability – cookstove lore
- sustainability – how to build an adobe oven
- sustainability – how to make soap
- sustainability – making soap
- sustainability – sixty uses for vinegar
- sustainability – the designers guide
- sustainability – the old time spring house
Wine Making (4)
- alcohol – guide to red wine making
- alcohol – home winemakers manual
- alcohol – homemade distillation apparatus
- alcohol – how to make alcohol with fruit and berries
Best Emergency Medicine Books and Downloads (42)
- A Manual for Midwives – PDF
- HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan
- Survival and Austere Medicine – PDF
- Where-There-is-No-Dentist-Murray-Dickson.pdf
- Where-There-Is-No-Doctor.pdf
- survival-personal-wilderness-medical-kit.pdf
- Wound Closure Manual
- Full-First-Aid-Manual-FM-2111.pdf
- Emergency War Surgery
- USMC-Wilderness-Medicine-Course.pdf
- Survival Medicine
- medical – a complete handbook of nature cures
- medical – army field manual. treatment of biological warfare agent casualties
- medical – basics of herbalism
- medical – bird flu diagnosis and personal hygiene
- medical – cholera medical – emergency childbirth 2
- medical – emergency childbirth
- medical – face masks
- medical – first aid and management of minor injuries
- medical – flu home treatment
- medical – food-borne illnesses
- medical – gluten free
- medical – herbal manual
- medical – herba
- medical contraindications
- medical – holistic and alternative medicine 101
- medical – home remedies
- medical – how medicine should be used
- medical – hypochorites
- medical – intradermal injections
- medical – isolation planning
- medical – making an herbal tincture
- medical – mass casualty planning and burial
- medical – medical emergencies
- medical – migraine
- medical – pandemic flu citizens guide
- medical – pesticides are poison
- medical – philadelphia guide to a healthy birth
- medical – safe burial practices
- medical – surgery for victims of war
- medical – the guide to alternative therapies for cancer
- medical – wilderness med kit
Security and Defense (27)
- defense – defending your property – bushfire survival planning
- defense – Levato-Francesco-Zombie Apocalypse-4.1-Fall-2013.91-102
- defense – off-grid home protection systems
- defense – survival self defense
- defense – tactics defending the homestead
- defense -tactics home security and defense
- explosives – kitchen improvised explosives
- explosives – military explosives
- fierarms – shotguns for home defense
- weapons – hidden street weapons
- weapons – backyard rocketry – converting model rockets into explosive missiles
- weapons – how to make roadblocks
- weapons – primitive – atlatl experiments
- weapons – primitive – history of the sling
- weapons – primitive – how to make an atlatl
- weapons – primitive – make and take atlatls
- weapons – primitive – make12 atlatl
- weapons – primitive – making a rivercane atlatl dart
- weapons – primitive – sling throwing as a sport
- weapons – primitive – time travel trebushe and atlatl
- weapons – primitive – introduction to slings of the world
- weapons – ragnar benson, homemade grenade launcher
- weapons – secret guide to making ninja weapons
- weapons – the fairbairn manual of knife fighting
- weapons – tomahawk technique
- weapons – viet cong booby traps by kurt saxon
- weapons primitive – darts for atlatls
General Emergency Preparedness and Survival PDFs (100)
Like the other books on this page, this archive of emergency preparedness and survival PDFs is provided here as a resource to the public, for browsing or download.
- SAS Survival Handbook
- Disaster Supply Kit
- Ultimate Survival Skills
- The-Worst-Case-Scenario-Survival-Handbook.pdf
- How to Handle a Crisis
- FEMA Emergency Supplies Checklist – All Americans should have some basic supplies on hand in order to survive for at least three days if an emergency occurs. Following is a listing of some basic items that every emergency supply kit should include.
- FEMA Family Supply List – Water, food, and clean air are important things to have if an emergency happens. Each family or individual’s kit should be customized to meet specific needs, such as medications and infant formula. It should also be customized to include important family documents.
- 3 Day’s Emergency Prep’s – PDF
- Nuclear War Survival Skills – Excellent book describing the means by which to prepare for a nuclear war – especially with expedient and low cost methods.
- The Family Fallout Shelter MP-15 – PDF This is a digitized copy of the old (1959) civil defense book that showcases several fallout shelter types along with information on proper ventilation, supplies needed, and fallout wind patterns. This is a very old “classic” document that still holds some value today.
- FEMA – Protection In The Nuclear Age Government sponsored book that came out many years ago on the topic of surviving a nuclear war. Provides lots of information on fallout and the inherent dangers of nuclear weapons.
- Radio-Monitoring-a-How-to-Guide.pdf
- Emergency-Plan.pdf
- General_-_Becoming_Self-Sufficient_for_Six_Months.pdf
- General_-_Compact_survival_kit.pdf
- General_-_Dangerous_Animals.pdf
- General_-_PreparingForDisasterforPeopleWithDisabilities.pdf
- General_-_Signaling_and_Direction_Finding.pdf
- General_-_Social_Distancing_and_Pandemic_Readiness.pdf
- General_-_Strengthening_exterior_doors.pdf
- General_-_Surviving_in_the_City.pdf
- Survive-Doomsday.pdf
- THE-INTERNATIONAL-CBRN-TRAINING.pdf
- TOP-120-CITIES-AT-RISK-FOR-NBC-ATTACK.pdf
- The-Construction-of-Secret-Hiding-Placesreduced.pdf
- prepping – all hazard preparedness workbook
- prepping – arc – family disaster plan
- prepping – are you ready for fire
- prepping – are you ready for wildfire
- prepping – become self-sufficient for six months
- prepping – becoming self-sufficient for six months
- prepping – biological warfare faq
- prepping – bug out guide and checklist
- prepping – chemical emergencies
- prepping – diabetes disaster planning
- prepping – disaster handbook
- prepping – disaster supply kit
- prepping – earthquake
- prepping – earthquakes
- prepping – emergency plan
- prepping – emergency preparedness for childbirth
- prepping – em
- prepping – emp2
- prepping – emp-system-eng-requirements
- prepping – fact sheet – earthquakes
- prepping – family disaster plan prepping – family emergency handbook
- prepping – family emergency plan template
- prepping – family preparedness handbook
- prepping – fema fact sheet – fire
- prepping – fema fact sheet – hurricane
- prepping – fema, are you ready appendix a
- prepping – fema, are you ready appendix b
- prepping – fema, are you ready appendix c
- prepping – fema, are you ready contents
- prepping – fema, are you ready preface
- prepping – fema, are you ready unit 4
- prepping – fema, are you ready unit 5
- prepping – fema, food and water preparation
- prepping – fire safety
- prepping – flood preparation
- prepping – food shelf life recomendations
- prepping – food storage in the home
- prepping – general – earthquakes
- prepping – general supplies
- prepping – grains and legumes
- prepping – how to dry fruits and vegetables
- prepping – hurricanes – 101
- prepping – hurricanes natures fury
- prepping – hurricanes
- prepping – ibhs earthquakes brochure
- prepping – ibhs hurricanes brochure
- prepping – in home sheltering
- prepping – it@27s a disaster
- prepping – keeping food safe during an emergency
- prepping – last minute preparations
- prepping – lds prep manual
- prepping – lds preparedness
- prepping – mylar bag sealing methods
- prepping – nuclear – 11 steps
- prepping – nuclear – 120 cities
- prepping – nuclear – chemical, biological, radiological
- prepping – nuclear – effects of nuclear war
- prepping – nuclear – lsu ag shelter
- prepping – nuclear – potassium iodide
- prepping – nuclear – you will survive doomsday – bruce beach
- prepping – one year emergency food supply for one adult
- prepping – pets prepping – preparedness – earthquake
- prepping – preparedness – hurricane
- prepping – preparing for disaster for people with disabilities and other special needs
- prepping – stocking food prepping – stocking for small spaces and budgets
- prepping – storage in the home
- prepping – storage of wheat
- prepping – surviving in the city
- prepping – taking shelter
- prepping – the power is out
- prepping – top ten emergency and preparedness myths
- prepping – us field manual food deterioration
- prepping – usgs earthquakes brochure
- prepping – wildfires
- prepping -l food storage 1 year
Alternative Energy Books, Downloads, and PDFs(2)
- Generator Load Chart – PDF Chart offers a quick reference guide to typical wattage loads of various electrical items commonly found around the home. From TV’s to power tools – chart can be used to determine of your generator size is sufficient in case of a power outage.
- Practical Guide to Free Energy DEVICES
Books on Water Storage, Treatment, and Resupply (41)
- SODIS – Safe Water School Training Manual – PDF This download provides excellent educational material on all things making sure water is safe to drink.
- Survival-Water-Purification.pdf
- Water Treatment
- foods – us field manual water
- water – bio sand filter
- water – build a hand pump
- water – buried and semi-submerged water storage tanks
- water – cistern construction
- water – development selection low cost handpumps for rainwater tanks
- water – emergency disinfection of drinking water
- water – emergency water purification + clorox
- water – fero cement water tanks
- water – getting started
- water – gravity household filter
- water – home made hydrolic ram pump
- water – household water testing
- water – household water treatment
- water – how to construct a cheap wind machine for pumping water
- water – how to design and build a water system for your backwoods home
- water – how to make a solar still (plastic covered)
- water – manufacture of handpumps for water collection tanks
- water – priming the berkey filter
- water – purification of water on a small scale
- water – pvc hand pumps
- water – rain water harvesting
- water – rainwater harvesting
- water – safe use of household grey water
- water – sand and gravel water filter
- water – simple solar still for the production of distilled water
- water – slow sand filters
- water – slow sand filtration full paper
- water – solar distillation
- water – solar photovoltaics for irrigation water pumping
- water – solar water disinfection
- water – water for life
- water – water purification
- water – water storage tanks in alaska
- water – water storage
- water – water treatment
- water – water well helpline
- water- bucket filter
Emergency and Survival Shelter Books (36)
- shelter – a long-term survival guide – types of combat shelters
- shelter – backwoods + survival shelters
- shelter – building with stone and earth part 1
- shelter – building with tire bales
- shelter – bulletproof your home
- shelter – chapter 11 snow shelters
- shelter – digging in the dirt
- shelter – dynamic compaction of soil for building blocks
- shelter – earthship biotecture
- shelter – earthship biotectures text
- shelter – earthship construction overview
- shelter – earthship cool house
- shelter – earthship project australia
- shelter – expedient fallout shelters
- shelter – going underground
- shelter – how to make stabilised earth blocks
- shelter – manufacture of small scale building bricks
- shelter – nuclear – above ground fallout shelter
- shelter – nuclear – air filtration
- shelter – nuclear – basement shelter
- shelter – nuclear – below ground culvert shelter
- shelter – nuclear – below ground masonry shelter
- shelter – nuclear – civil defense shelters
- shelter – nuclear – how to build a bomb shelter
- shelter – nuclear – protection in the nuclear age
- shelter – nuclear – self-contained underground
- shelters for pre-positioned deployment for defense against nbc warfare
- shelter – root cellar construction
- shelter – seven primitive survival shelters that could save your life
- shelter – shelters, shacks, and shanties, beard
- shelter – shelters
- shelter – strengthening exterior doors
- shelter – the application of the earthship building type
- shelter – the boulder concept of building stone walls
- shelter – the bunker book
- shelter – the thatchers craft – 01_tcm2-18962
Emergency Hygiene and Sanitation Downloads (2)
PDFs on Knot Tying (16)
- Knots – Andrew Adamides
- sea scout knots
- Ropes-Knots-Ladders-Lashings-Anchorages.pdf
- knots splices attachments
- Knots, Splices and Rope Work
- Knots-for-Mountaineering-Camping-Climbing-Utility-Rescue-Etc
- Knots-by-Andrew-Adamides.pdf
- pioneering knots and lashings
- KNOTS
- Handbook-of-Knots-Splices.pdf
- Fishing Knots Tying How To Tie A Knot Knotting
- Essential-Fishing-knots
- Encyclopedia-of-Knots
- basic-book-of-knots-and-lashings.pdf
- What-Knot-Useful-Knots-for-Scouting-and-Climbing-Martin-Stone
- Tying-Farm-Knots.pdf
Street Smarts and Urban Survival PDFs (11)
These manuals and PDFs are a great resource for learning urban survival tactics and techniques. They are available here for download, and can be printed out if you would like a physical copy in case of no electricity.
- Steal-This-Book
- Secret-Hiding-Places.pdf
- awareness – one year in hell
- awareness – selco forum
- stealth – camouflage concealment and decoys
- stealth – construction of secret hiding places
- stealth – secret hiding places
- stealth – security storage containers
- stealth – special forces – caching techniques
- stealth – tc 31-29 special forces – caching techniques
- stealth – the construction of secret hiding places(reduced)
Free Survival Guides and Books for PDF Download (15)
- survival – chapter 7 firecraft
- survival – chapter 15, cold weather survival
- survival – compact survival kits
- survival – desert awareness
- survival – guide to self reliant living
- survival – making fire with the bow drill
- survival – montana@27s take-along winter survival handbook
- survival – us army field-expedient weapons, tools, and equipment
- survival – us army mountaineering survival advanced
- survival – usmc surviving terrorism
- survival – water purification
- survival – wilderness survival
- survival – winter survival in your car
- survival – winter time camping
- survival – worse case scenario survival handbook
What is the best survival book?
Although this is a subjective and nuanced answer, one of the most popular survival guides of all time is the SAS Survival Handbook, by John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman. It has had multiple revisions over the years, and has been the launchpad for related titles (such as the SAS Urban Survival Handbook). The Army Survival Field Manual (FM 21-76) has also been a long-standing favorite for generations.
What is the best wilderness survival book?
Bushcraft 101, by Dave Canterbury is a New York Times Bestseller, and one of the most thorough, best written books, by an author with decades of experience. Although it is a newer publication (2014), it contains a curated collection of the wisdom of several centuries.
How do you learn survival skills?
The best way to learn survival skills is from experienced teachers, in person. All over the world you can find survival courses that teach students how to shelter, hunt, purify drinking water, defend themselves, grow a garden and more. Although you can learn a lot from books and videos, when the subject matter can mean life or death, you want to be certain that you aren’t missing a detail or nuance that might’ve not been correctly conveyed in a book.
How do you survive in the wild with nothing?
While it’s impossible to survive anywhere with “nothing”, people have successfully survived in the wild with very little. The 2 most foundational survival tools are a knife and fire. With good training and these 2 items as your base, you can successfully build shelter, hunt animals, purify water, make tools, stay warm, send communications, defend yourself, cook, and a hundred other things.