Prepper's Total Grid Failure Handbook
Alternative Power, Energy Storage, Low Voltage Appliances and Other Lifesaving Strategies for Self-S
Part of the Preppers series
The ultimate guide to creating, storing and utilizing lifesaving power in the most critical circumstances
Batteries don't last forever. To successfully survive a long-term disaster, you'll need self-reliant, renewable electricity. This book teaches you how to:
CREATE YOUR OWN POWER
• Choose cost-efficient solar panels
• Incorporate a micro-hydro system
• Harness the wind with turbines
MANAGE ENERGY STORAGE
• Select durable battery banks
• Rewire for energy efficiency
• Control energy consumption
LIVE COMFORTABLY ON LESS
• Install a high-efficiency refrigerator and LEDs
• Use a human-powered washing machine
• Charge laptops and cell phones
Written in an approachable, easy-to-understand style, Prepper's Total Grid Failure Handbook provides everything you need to survive long-term without grid power.
Prepper's Food Storage
101 Easy Steps to Affordably Stock a Life-Saving Supply of Food
Part of the Preppers series
This comprehensive prepper guide offers step-by-step instructions for planning, stockpiling, and storing the food you will need to survive any disaster.
Preparing to keep yourself and your family fed through dark times can seem like a daunting, complex, and expensive task. But the worst thing you can do is wait until it's too late. The food you prepare today can save your life when disaster strikes.
Prepper's Food Storage breaks the process down into easy, manageable, and affordable steps that have been carefully organized in order of importance, including:
• Charts to calculate food needs
• Best shelf-stable foods
• Storage solutions for big and small spaces
• Instructions for dehydrating and canning
• Checklists of essential non-food items
The Prepper's Pocket Guide
101 Easy Things You Can Do to Ready Your Home for a Disaster
Part of the Preppers series
Stay safe and be prepared for any disaster with this DIY guide featuring 101 easy prepper projects and practical survival skills.
From California earthquakes and Rocky Mountain wildfires to Midwest floods and Atlantic hurricanes, you can't escape that inevitable day when catastrophe strikes your home town - but you can be prepared! Offering a simple DIY approach, this book breaks down the vital steps you should take into 101 quick, smart and inexpensive projects. With the Prepper's Pocket Guide, you'll learn to:
#6 Make a Master List of Passwords
#16 Calculate How Much Water You Need
#33 Start a Food Storage Plan for $5 a Week
#60 Make a Safe from a Hollowed-out Book
#77 Assemble an Inexpensive First Aid kit
#89 Learn to Cook Without Electricity
#94 Pack a Bug-out Bag
Prepping for a Pandemic
Life-Saving Supplies, Skills and Plans for Surviving an Outbreak
Part of the Preppers series
An in-depth guide to prepare your family for the widespread outbreak of any deadly disease like COVID-19 or H1N1.
New viruses hop around the globe every year. In 2009–2010, it was H1N1 that infected over sixty million people around the globe. In 2014, Ebola virus had a terrifying 40% mortality rate. In 2020, COVID-19 exploded into a world-wide pandemic despite the best efforts of governments and health organizations.So, what will happen when a pathogen as easily transmitted as coronavirus and as deadly as Ebola emerges?
Prepping for a Pandemic provides all the information you need for medical self-reliance. It's step-by-step guidance covers every important issue, including stocking food, storing water, developing contingency plans, learning first aid and nursing skills, and establishing quarantines and sick rooms.
With checklists, tips, and plans, this book outlines the necessary supplies and skills one will need to stay healthy when doctors, hospitals, and the world's medical infrastructure become overwhelmed or unavailable during a pandemic outbreak.
Prepper's Communication Handbook
Lifesaving Strategies for Staying in Contact During and After a Disaster
Part of the Preppers series
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ACQUIRING, ASSEMBLING AND UTILIZING LIFE-SAVING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSWhen disaster strikes, your calls, texts and emails will not work. After 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, cell phones were rendered useless when transmission towers were destroyed and networks became overloaded. Having an alternative way to reach family and loved ones at these critical moments is essential. With Prepper's Communication Handbook, you learn the best tips, tricks and expert secrets for surviving when phones and the Internet fail. Exploring the best options for every disaster scenario, this hands-on guide features in-depth coverage on a wide variety of lifesaving emergency communication systems, including:• Satellite Radio• Shortwave• NOAA Receiver• GMRS and FRS Radios• Citizen's Band• Ham Radio• Radio Scanner• MURS Radio Jim Cobb is the author of numerous prepping and survival guides, including, Prepper's Home Defense and The Prepper's Complete Book of Disaster Readiness. Cobb is a prepper, survivalist, and author of the website SurvivalWeekly.com. He lives in Wisconsin.
The Prepper's Water Survival Guide
Harvest, Treat, and Store Your Most Vital Resource
Part of the Preppers series
No source is left untapped in this all-encompassing guide to supplying life-saving water after a disaster.
You can survive up to three weeks without food, but only three days without water! When catastrophe strikes, having enough water can spell the difference between life and death. The Prepper's Water Survival Guide offers a step-by-step plan with straightforward information you can easily follow. Thanks to this book's laser-focus on water, you'll quickly learn how to:
• Store fresh water
• Collect rainwater
• Purify water from lakes & rivers
• Dig a well for groundwater
In addition to harvesting water, you'll gain the tools to keep large stores untainted for long periods of time, test the water you collect for dangerous toxins, and treat water-related illnesses that are commonly contracted during a disaster.
The Prepper's Canning Guide
Affordably Stockpile a Lifesaving Supply of Nutritious, Delicious, Shelf-Stable Foods
Part of the Preppers series
A practical and approachable guide to amassing an emergency food supply filled with your own natural dishes, featuring a variety of recipes.
As the disaster drags on for days, weeks, months or even years, food scarcity and starvation will fuel people's desperation. Even preppers like you will need more than dried beans and rice to survive. With The Prepper's Canning Guide, you'll learn the lifesaving techniques to take your food storage to the next level, including how to:
• Store nutrition-packed foods
• Create delicious MREs
• Can protein-rich meat and poultry
• Make canned produce last longer
• Use time-tested water-bath methods
• Utilize modern pressure canning
From food safety guidelines to grid-failure canning tips, this book will guarantee your family stays safe, secure and well-fed.
The Prepper's Cookbook
300 Recipes to Turn Your Emergency Food into Nutritious, Delicious, Life-Saving Meals
Part of the Preppers series
A comprehensive plan to survive any food supply disruption by preserving, storing, and cooking with emergency rations.
When pandemics, disasters and catastrophic economic collapse cripple society, grocery store shelves can empty out within days. But if you follow this book's plan for stocking, organizing and maintaining a proper emergency food supply, your family will have plenty to eat for weeks, months or even years, with comforting, nutritious meals such as:
• French Toast
• Black Bean Soup
• Chicken Pot Pie
• Beef Stroganoff
• Fish Tacos
• Potatoes Croquette
• Asian Ramen Salad
• Quinoa Tabouli
• Rice Pilaf
• Buttermilk Biscuits
• Peach Cobbler
...and much more
Packed with tips for off-grid cooking, canning charts for over 20 fruits and vegetables, and checklists for the best emergency pantry items, The Prepper's Cookbook will have you turning shelf-stable, freeze-dried and dehydrated foods into delicious, nutritious dishes your family will love eating.
Prepper's Survival Medicine Handbook
A Lifesaving Collection of Emergency Procedures from U.S. Army Field Manuals
Part of the Preppers series
A HANDY GUIDE TO FIELD-TESTED MEDICAL PROCEDURES SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR CRITICAL TIMES WHEN NO DOCTOR IS AVAILABLEWhen disaster strikes and no doctors are available, you'll have to rely on your own medical knowledge to survive. Prepper's Survival Medicine Handbook goes beyond basic first aid to teach you military-tested methods for treating life-threatening medical conditions, including:• Gunshot wounds• Third degree burns• Radiation exposure• Broken bones• Ruptured arteries• Severed limbs• Poisonous snakebites• Anaphylactic shockThe author, an emergency responder, details step-by-step treatment for everything from hypothermia and heat stroke to seizures and cardiac emergencies. Using information from actual military field manuals, this book provides everything you need to keep you and your loved ones safe when there's nowhere else to turn.
The Prepper's Complete Book of Disaster Readiness
Life-Saving Skills, Supplies, Tactics and Plans
Part of the Preppers series
Make sure your survival plan is complete from A to Z with this comprehensive disaster prep guide.
When preparing to face a disaster scenario, details can mean the difference between life and death. If you overlook one vital area, fail to stock one supply or underestimate one potential danger, your whole plan could come crashing down. The Prepper's Complete Book of Disaster Readiness guarantees you won't miss a thing as you prepare to face the most critical challenges. This bible of prepping shows each and every life-saving step necessary to keep your family alive and well when the world around you is in chaos, including how to:
• Efficiently store water and acquire additional fresh water after a collapse
• Build a shelf-stable food stock and supplement it by harvesting edible wild plants
• Strengthen the security of your home as well as have a back-up bug-out plan
• Treat illness and stay healthy when there are no doctors or hospitals • Build a safe and secure survival retreat that allows for long-term off-the-grid living
The Prepper's Workbook
Checklists, Worksheets, and Home Projects to Protect Your Family from Any Disaster
Part of the Preppers series
A step-by-step, don't-overlook-anything workbook of DIY projects that prepare home and family for any life-threatening catastrophe.
For days the unrelenting storm pounds the city, downing trees, flooding streets, knocking out power. Thousands are stranded with no hope of help or rescue. Only a few prepared citizens are able to ride out the storm in safety. The Prepper's Workbook lays out exactly how to plan, prepare, and survive any natural or man-made disaster, taking readers from average unprepared Joes to prepper masters. The book's one-of-a-kind, hands-on format allows readers to break down each aspect of prepping into simple, can't-fail steps. Since every family is different, The Prepper's Workbook provides a fill-in-the-blank assessment that provides a straight-forward answer specifically tailored to each individual reader. Then the author details the best way to address those specific needs. With The Prepper's Workbook even complex projects can be tackled piece by piece over many weekends until they are finished, including building safe and secure food storage in a basement or decking out an attic with proper medical supplies for treating everything from small cuts to broken bones. The book even includes fun activities to help prepping families construct evacuation and emergency procedures, as well as home defense drills for adults.
Features:
• Checklists to stock up on life-saving survival supplies
• Projects to fortify your home from the elements
• Maps to pre-plan your bug-out and evacuation routes
• Blueprints to prepare your home's defenses in case of societal collapse
• Forms to keep personal information on each family member organized
Prepper's Survival Hacks
50 DIY Projects for Lifesaving Gear, Gadgets and Kits
Part of the Preppers series
INGENIOUS TIPS, TRICKS AND TECHNIQUES FOR TURNING ORDINARY OBJECTS INTO SURVIVAL GEARWhen a catastrophic event strikes, you'll need to rely on your skills and supplies to keep you alive. This book teaches you how to improvise solutions for the scarcities, deficiencies, and dangers that will arise in a worst-case scenario.Prepper's Survival Hacks offers a wide range of creative ideas for transforming cheap and widely available items into life-saving gear:• Harvest water in a transpiration bag• Catch food with a pocket fishing kit• Cook using a handy hobo stove• Craft quick fire starters in an egg carton• Make a mini oil lamp using a mint tin• Assemble a survival kit in a belt pouch Jim Cobb is the author of numerous prepping and survival guides, including, Prepper's Home Defense and The Prepper's Complete Book of Disaster Readiness. Cobb is a prepper, survivalist, and author of the website SurvivalWeekly.com. He lives in Wisconsin.
Prepper's Guide to Knots
The 100 Most Useful Tying Techniques for Surviving any Disaster
Part of the Preppers series
When your life, home, and property are hanging by a thread, these are the knots too strong to break-from the author of Prepper's Survival Medicine Handbook.
When catastrophe strikes and modern technologies fail, ropework skills will become as essential for survival as they were for centuries past. The variety of knots taught in this book are guaranteed to hold against even the toughest forces, ensuring that an emergency doesn't turn into a disaster. With knots that are practical, easy to tie, easy to remember, and useful in critical situations, you'll learn how to...
• Create sturdy shelter with a HARNESS BEND
• Preserve sacks of grain with a BAG KNOT
• Move fallen trees with a BOWLINE
• Transport injured persons with a MUNTER HITCH
• Secure your home against intruders with a ZEPPELIN BEND
• Hang rations above floodwater with a SCAFFOLD KNOT
Prepper's Guide to Knots features clear, step-by-step instructions on tying each knot. It also provides information on selecting the right type of rope, the history of ropework and the specific benefits of each knot.
Prepper's Home Defense
Security Strategies to Protect Your Family by Any Means Necessary
Part of the Preppers series
Deter, delay, defend-a guide to building and maintaining security when civilization breaks down.
Does your disaster preparation plan include security measures? When civilization fails and the desperate masses begin looting, they will come for your food, water, and life-sustaining supplies. This book shows you how to implement a complete plan for operational security and physical defense, including:
• Perimeter Security Systems and Traps
• House Fortifications and Safe Rooms
• Secured and Hidden Storage
• Firearms and Defensive Combat Techniques
• Gathering Intelligence and Forming Alliances
Prepper's Natural Medicine
Life-Saving Herbs, Essential Oils and Natural Remedies for When There is No Doctor
Part of the Preppers series
This comprehensive guide features holistic medicines, salves, and ointments for treating a broad range of ailments and injuries during a crisis.
When disaster strikes and you lose all access to doctors, hospitals and pharmacies, natural medicine will be your family's best hope for survival. With easy-to-read herbal charts, a breakdown of essential oils, tips for stockpiling natural medicines and step-by-step instructions for creating your own elixirs, salves and more, this book offers everything you need to keep you and your loved ones safe.
Prepper's Natural Medicine is the definitive guide to creating powerful home remedies for any health situation, including:
• Herbal Salve for Infections
• Poultice for Broken Bones
• Natural Ointment for Poison Ivy
• Infused Honey for Burns
• Essential Oil for Migraines
• Soothing Tea for Allergies
• Nutritional Syrup for Flu
Prepper's Survival Navigation
Find Your Way with Map and Compass as well as Stars, Mountains, Rivers and other Wilderness Signs
Part of the Preppers series
An easy-to-understand primer on time-tested navigation techniques that work when your GPS failsWhen disaster strikes and your GPS is useless, ancient navigation techniques will ensure your survival. With this book, you can easily travel through even the farthest, remotest places. Utilizing tips from US Army manuals and lifelong wilderness experts, you'll learn lifesaving navigation techniques, including how to:• Orient yourself using a topographical map• Find north using a compass, shadows and stars• Calculate distance using landmarks and pace count• Navigate unfamiliar terrain using dead reckoning• Travel in low visibility with a navigator and point person• Use landscape features to pinpoint locationThis definitive guide to terrain navigation also teaches you essential survival skills like fire craft, water procurement and shelter making.
Prepper's Financial Guide
Strategies to Invest, Stockpile and Build Security for Today and the Post-Collapse Marketplace
Part of the Preppers series
BEFORE, DURING, AND BEYOND A MARKETPLACE MELTDOWNYou're prepared for hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes and other natural disasters, but are you ready for the inevitable man-made disasters to come? This book teaches you the other half of disaster planning-how to survive the economic turmoil that hits regions and nations after the storm has passed. Prepper's Financial Guide will teach you how to: •Become self-sufficient•Purchase precious metals •Safeguard your valuable possessions •Invest in foreign and alternate currencies•Barter and trade for needed supplies•Build an off-grid marketplace•Reduce debt so you can save for the future•And much more Jim Cobb is the author of numerous prepping and survival guides, including, Prepper's Home Defense and The Prepper's Complete Book of Disaster Readiness. Cobb is a prepper, survivalist, and author of the website SurvivalWeekly.com. He lives in Wisconsin.