278 sats \ 2 replies \ @Turnspit_Dog 8 Jan \ parent \ on: I'm not the brightest bulb out there, help me change it. BooksAndArticles
It depends. Are you looking for tactical, hands on skills, or you looking for how to survive?
I'll just throw a few out...
For a foundational knowledge:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52354603-how-to-survive
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1795658.When_All_Hell_Breaks_Loose
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26526901-the-lost-art-of-reading-nature-s-signs
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30231750-deep-survival
For technical knowledge:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22836669-sas-survival-handbook
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17124853-how-to-stay-alive-in-the-woods (this is dated, but from one of the original back to the wilderness authors post-World War II)
And honestly most "survival skills" books are just re-hashes of the same information over and over again. The SAS book is a good compilation of them.
And from our discussion the other day... survival has been commercialized and commoditized starting back around 2009 since the Aztec calendar was going to end the world in 2012. There are a ton of resources on how to rub sticks together and how to make a pile of sticks on sleep in. There are not a lot of people that know how to survive. Build on this foundation.
Again, off my soap box. :)
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I always thought of the SAS book as sort of gimmicky,
It sort of is with a title like that. But, it is probably the most comprehensive book showing technical skills. Like I said, almost everything is just a rehash of knowledge that has been around in perpetuity and people are not discovering or inventing new ways to stay alive. Also pick up the US Army's FM 21-76 Survival Manual too.
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