How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It - James Wesley Rawles [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - THE SURVIVAL MIND-SET FOR LIVING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Chapter 2 - PRIORITIES Your List of Lists
Chapter 3 - THE SURVIVAL RETREAT
Chapter 4 - WATER The Key Resource
Chapter 5 - THE DEEP LARDER Your Family’s Food Storage
Chapter 6 - FUEL AND HOME POWER
Chapter 7 - GARDENS AND LIVESTOCK
Chapter 8 - MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND TRAINING
Chapter 9 - COMMUNICATIONS AND MONITORING
Chapter 10 - HOME SECURITY AND SELF-DEFENSE
Chapter 11 - FIREARMS FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND SELF-DEFENSE
Chapter 12 - G.O.O.D. VEHICLES AND THE DREADED TRIP OUTTA DODGE
Chapter 13 - INVESTING, BARTER, AND HOME-BASED BUSINESSES
Chapter 14 - IT COMES DOWN TO YOU
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Index
A PLUME BOOK
HOW TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
JAMES WESLEY, RAWLES is the founder and editor of SurvivalBlog .com, the Internet’s most popular blog on family preparedness. He is a world-renowned expert on a wide range of preparedness topics, including food storage, fuel storage, self-defense, communications, retreat security, “bug out” bags, survival vehicles, retreat architecture, gardening for self-sufficiency, small livestock, and a wide variety of traditional pioneer and self-sufficiency skills.
The author is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His preparedness consulting clients have included Fortune 500 executives, clergy, entrepreneurs, and fund managers. An influential figure in the modern preparedness movement, Rawles not only talks the talk, but he walks the walk: He and his family live at a well-stocked and fully self-sufficient retreat that is nestled in a mountain range “somewhere west of the Rockies.”
Rawles is also the author of Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, which has been described as “a survival manual, dressed neatly as fiction.” Two sequels are forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
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