Planning for the Apocalypse

A bookshelf of books to help you survive. Lots of info in the comments. [Link]

One person's death could mean doom for an entire community, if the are the only one that knows how to fix the water pump or make medicine. Combine that with the fact that most people in developed countries no longer know much about hunting, farming, wilderness survival and similar skills, and we've suddenly got a serious survival problem. Well, besides the whole apocalypse thing.

My solution is The Post-Apocalyptic Survival Bookshelf. I intend to gather various books together to form a small library of important information to help survive the apocalypse, thrive in the post-apocalyptic world, and start to rebuild society afterwards. The books will be a valuable physical resource that will outlast your death and can teach others the same important skills. And by knowing what's in the books, you'll have a leg up on anyone else and be a more valuable member of your community even if the books don't survive.

Some of the books suggested:

• Joy of Cooking: All About Canning & Preserving ISBN 0743215028
• The SAS guide to tracking, ISBN 1-58574-031-4
• "Henley's Formulas" - a good general all-around book with directions and formulas for a variety of compounds ISBN 0517293072
• Field Dressing and Butchering Deer: Step-by-Step Instructions, from Field to Table by Monte Burch ISBN 1585743585
• The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer ISBN 0976626608
• SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea by John Lofty Wiseman ISBN 0060578793
• Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills by Abigail Gehring ISBN 1602392331
• Townsend Whelan's On Your Own In The Wilderness ISBN 0883650045
• The Foxfire books ISBN 0385073534
• A Physics Textbook
• A Calculus Textbook (for the Physics)
• A Math Textbook (for the Math)

Just for reference, for you know, when the apocalypse comes. Or the zombies.