Prepping & Survival books
Based on the 5Cs of Survivability - cutting tools, covering, combustion devices, containers, and cordages - this valuable guide offers only the most important survival skills to help you craft resources from your surroundings and truly experience the beauty and thrill of the wilderness.
There is barely a terrain Bear Grylls hasn’t conquered or an extreme environment he hasn’t experienced. From his time in 21 SAS, through to his extraordinary expeditions in the toughest corners of each of the seven continents, Bear has accumulated an astonishing wealth of survival knowledge. In this book he teaches you all the essential skills you need to survive in the modern world.
Master the art of building and maintaining a fire with this definitive field guide, which contains easy-to-follow directions and clear illustrations. Find out how to make fires in your home, in the woods, in the snow, or in the desert with a range of fire-starting methods, and make sure that you always have the right supplies to hand. Explore how to safely and effectively use tools like axes, splitting mauls, hatchets, pocketknives, saws, and more. And - most importantly - learn how to deal with an emergency if things get out of hand.
Arm yourself with the critical thinking and decision-making skills to help ensure your safety in an emergency. Topics include: Situational awareness, Travel safety, Wilderness survival, Urban survival, Natural and man-made disaster survival, Crisis planning and response.
Learn the basics with clear step-by-step illustrations. Find out why not to camp under a tree, how to make a bed of leaves, and learn useful knots to secure your camp. Once you're safely in your shelter, discover how to net a fish, purify water, light a fire with flint and steel, and cook your catch. To help you find your way, this book shows you how to use a map and compass, or the Sun and stars as a guide.
A complete guide to food, shelter, and self-preservation.. anywhere by Bradford Angier
Wherever adventure takes you, take this book! The unexpected can strike at any moment, and knowing survival skills could mean the difference between life and death. This illustrated guide shows you how to make a shelter, build a fire, locate clean water, forage for food, avoid deadly animals, protect yourself from bad weather, and find your way back home safely afterwards. It also includes reflective stickers, a foldable cup, and other useful items to help you survive in the wild.
Written by ex-SAS survival expert John 'Lofty' Wiseman, this is still the most reliable, authoritative and respected survival guide there is. With an added section on Urban Survival, Lofty's classic instruction on how to survive on land, at sea, trekking in mountainous, desert or arctic regions, or in the midst of an unforeseen disaster, is now more thorough than ever. Including updated entries on mobile phones, mobile video and the internet, this new edition will be the only survival handbook you'll need.
Exploring the world's wilds and wilderness can be an exciting and rewarding experience - but if things were to go wrong, would you know what to do? Do you possess the knowledge and, above all, the determination and will to survive? With 150 expert survival tips, from using an ice axe, sheltering from the wind and celestial navigation, to finding fresh water, building a protective shelter and survival psychology, this book gives you the basic skills to keep going in any situation and reach safety.
Practical skills you need for the great outdoors from Joe o’Leary. This book provides a guide to surviving in the wilderness.
The doomsday clock is seconds from midnight. Extinction-level dangers draw closer with every tick. Fear not and feel fine! Here is an indispensable guide to preparing for and surviving the ultimate in worst-case scenarios - with a good dose of humour, because you can’t panic if you’re laughing. Illustrated, step-by-step instructions on packing a go bag in 30 minutes, making your bunker feel like home, surviving alien invasion, defeating a robot uprising, fending off a hostile clan, building a utopian society - and more.
Covering crucial survival skills, the ideal Plan A and Plan B, tips for survival on the road as you travel from chaos to salvation, and assembling the perfect team to assist you, this hilarious book has everything you will need when Doomsday strikes. Prepare for every possible end of days with this essential survival guide. Addresses the following eschatological scenarios: Zombies, Alien Invasion, Nuclear Fallout, Climate Crisis, Asteroids, Viruses, Robots - and more.
A practical and to-the-point guide to outdoor survival, giving advice for handling situations that weren’t part of the plan and can quickly escalate. The book starts with ten life saving tips, goes on to outline the crucial components for staying alive such as water, food and shelter, and then explores the scenarios in which you might need to use them. Jason Polley was trained by the SAS and Ray Mears, and has spent years leading expeditions in wilderness environments.
Written by America’s number one survivalist, this book contains all the skills you need to survive TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It). It discusses the potential causes of societal breakdown, and shows you how to survive in the short-term and thrive in the long-term. Subjects include advance preparation, self-defence, medical advice, building shelter and a new home, and self-sufficiency.
The author also provides advice on building the mental and emotional resilience to feel fine in the midst of the most stressful experience you will ever have.
The original and best survival guide for any situation in every climate is back, in the pocket-sized Collins Gem format. Now with added techniques for handling urban dangers, the SAS Survival Handbook is the complete companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared with SAS legend John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman’s unrivalled multi-million copy bestseller.
Straightforward advice on what to do in a dangerous situation. The first three chapters - Animal Dangers, Natural Dangers, and Human Hazards - describe what to do in a total of 24 specific emergencies, such as snakebite, hurricane and crowds.
The fourth chapter, Basic Survival Skills, has 14 important tips on emergency preparedness and survival skills including planning a trip, using a penknife, finding food, making a shelter, making a fire, and tying knots.
The no-nonsense visual guide to camping, wilderness, and outdoor survival skills in a handy format written by an ex-SAS Combat Survival Instructor with over 30 years' experience teaching survival skills to UK Army, Navy, Royal Marines, and RAF personnel.
Former navy SEAL and NSA employee Clint Emerson provides a complete practical guide to survival, no matter the situation, climate or terrain. Adapted for civilians from special forces’ field experience, these are techniques which will enable you to secure shelter, build a fire, find food and navigate your way to civilization.
Every year ordinary people, through no choice of their own, find themselves facing extraordinary and potentially life-threatening situations, whether in the wilderness, the country or on city streets. The good news is that the methods and techniques of survival can be learned and adapted to meet every one of them. This book covers shelter, food, protection, self-help, and most important of all, building the mental and emotional resilience to cope with adversity.
Do you know how to cope with searing heat and intense cold? Can you find food and water in the wild? Could you avoid deadly diseases and fight back against man-eating beasts? Let Bear Grylls teach you everything you need to know to venture through all of Earth's terrain, as well as through the air, over the seas, and under the waves in Bear Grylls Survival Camp.
An innovative cookbook for making food outdoors from Phoebe Smith, the author of Wilderness Weekends and Britain’s Best Small Hills with 50 recipes for cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner on a single stove in any place, be it moor, coast, woodland or mountain. Each recipe is matched with a see-how video on Smith’s YouTube channel, plus hidden ‘extra’ ingredients to forage for to add to your meals.
The must-know information from the original up to date with many new scenarios for 21st century perils (extreme weather, fake news, dropping a cell phone) with expert, illustrated, step-by-step instructions on handling life's sudden turns for the worst.
This is an essential guide to surviving the many challenges come across during off road adventures. Covering areas such as first aid, navigation, repairs, vehicle recovery and outdoor skills, this must have handbook for all four-wheel adventurers shows how to survive in many diverse terrains with your 4x4.
A stroll down the sidewalk could save you a visit to the supermarket. You just need to know what to look for. This book explains how to find, identify, harvest, and cook with 50 common wild plants, such as chickweed, echinacea, goldenrod, honeysuckle, red clover, and pine. Plant profiles include all the basics necessary for a successful forage: clear photos of the plant before and after harvest, tips for ethical and safe gathering, and details on culinary uses. Simple recipes for each plant will help readers cook with their harvest.
A practical and attractive guide to 50 species of delicious varieties of wild plants and weeds, with tips on how to cook and eat them. It covers both common plants, such as nettle, dandelion, chickweed and ground elder, and less common ones, such as brooklime and wintercress.
Includes illustrated notes on appearance and habitat; nutritional information; recipe suggestions for jams, cordials, pesto, salads and soups; and tips for non-culinary uses such as dyes from nettles and soap from soapwort.
Ideal for gardeners, botanists, cooks and foragers, and anyone who wants to control invasive plants and weeds in eco-friendly ways.
From dandelions in spring to sloe berries in autumn, via wild garlic, samphire, chanterelles and even grasshoppers, the countryside is full of edible delights in any season. The UK’s foremost forager, John Wright, shows us what species can be found and where, how to identify them, and how to store, use and cook them.
Hawthorn berry ketchup, cherry blossom shortbread, nettle ravioli, elderflower fritters, cowslip summer rolls - just some of the tasty and surprising dishes you can make from wild food found in your city. With stylish photography and expert advice from a professional forager, this book explains how to identify 32 easy-to-find plants in the city and cook up a wild feast.
In a world of intensive farming, mass production and mass extinction, John Seymour's legendary classic offers a future. While we aren't all able to move to the countryside, we can appreciate the need to eat food that has been grown ethically and sustainably, and to create things we can cherish, using skills that have been handed down through generations. With refreshed, retro-style illustrations and a brand-new foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
Dick and James Strawbridge have lived on a smallholding, in a terraced house, and even a chateau. In this book they give you all the tools you need for a more rewarding, satisfying and sustainable life.
In an era of pandemic and environmental crisis, self-sufficiency is a means of taking control of our lives and safeguarding the future. This new, fully updated edition contains all the practical information and expert guidance you need on every aspect of self-sufficiency, from gardening and baking through health, beauty and cleaning to foraging and livestock, whatever your needs, circumstances and resources. This means that the gardening chapter, for example, is appropriate both for people with an urban backyard or a more substantial plot of land.
What could be better than enjoying a glass of delicious home-brewed organic beer? This book includes everything you'll need to know to brew a variety of beers at home, from the equipment and techniques needed to a few inside secrets from a professional brewer.
This book, your one-stop guide to successful preserving, contains information on ingredients, popular fruits and vegetables, sugars and cooking techniques, along with storage information and helpful hints and tips, followed by 60 delicious recipes. Jams, jellies, fruit butters and curds, bottled fruits, chutneys, pickles and salted vegetables are all practical and economical ways to preserve seasonal produce. A heavy-based pan, a funnel, a sugar thermometer and a selection of glass storage jars are all you need.
A simple and systematic guide to growing a selection of the tastiest fruit and vegetables. Start with some easy-to-grow produce such as carrots, onions, radishes, tomatoes and strawberries. Once you have the confidence of the first growing season behind you, you can progress to crops requiring slightly more labour, such as peas, beans and raspberries. When you grow your own produce, you can be absolutely sure that everything has been organically cared for and you can grow just the variety you like.
This clear and concise directory provides all the essential information readers need to grow, use, and store a wide selection of flavour-enhancing herbs and spices. Some herbs are annuals, some are perennials, and some can be grown indoors - but all of them can be grown either in pots or directly in the soil. Each individual plant profile includes detailed growing advice.
This book covers a wide range of physical problems with the recopies being user friendly and easy to follow
A new edition of the practical introduction to some of the key aspects of a self-sufficient lifestyle - keeping your own chickens and benefiting from the produce. Packed with information on poultry keeping (housing, food and water, daily care, disease prevention and cure, encouraging egg production and breeding), there is also comprehensive information on breeds and a list of useful contacts should you need them.
This friendly book will help you become more self-sufficient and benefit your health, the environment, and your bank balance. It’s packed with clear, easy-to-follow cleaning recipes to replace common commercial cleaning products with natural alternatives. This book can help you make informed decisions about the harmful chemicals found in commercial cleaning products and discover how to use common household supplies to make your own cleaners that are both greener and cheaper.
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Master Self-Reliance and Off-Grid Survival
When it comes to disaster preparedness and backcountry survival, self-reliance isn't just a hobby—it's a necessity. Fire, Water, Shelter: A Guide to Modern Bushcraft Skills is the definitive manual for dedicated bush crafters, preppers, and survivalists looking to master traditional wilderness techniques.
Written by outdoor expert Ryan Marshall, host of Canadian TV's Marshall Bushcraft, this guide cuts through the noise to deliver practical, actionable survival skills. Whether you are building out your bug-out bag, prepping for a natural disaster, or testing your limits deep in the backcountry, this book provides the clear, concise instructions and full-colour photography you need to thrive when the grid goes down.
Essential Survival Skills Covered
Equip yourself with the fundamental knowledge required to survive in unforgiving environments. Core bushcraft techniques include:
Tactical Fire craft: Master the art of starting and sustaining fires in adverse weather conditions for warmth, cooking, and signalling.
Emergency Shelter Construction: Learn how to utilize natural materials to build secure, weather-resistant shelters to protect against the elements.
Water Sourcing & Purification: Discover crucial methods for finding, collecting, and safely purifying water off-grid.
Primitive Tool Crafting: Maximize your resources by making and using essential bushcraft tools from your immediate surroundings.
Extreme Weather Survival: Gain practical strategies for regulating body temperature and surviving in freezing cold or blistering heat.
Product Details
Author: Ryan Marshall
Publisher: Aurum Press Quarto
Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publication Date: April 9, 2026
ISBN: 9781577155898
Dimensions: 195 x 145mm