101 Uses For is popular and let's hope it stays that way. Our second book is presently called 101 tips for self sufficiency; we will certainly dip into this section for ideas. So post away and let's try and get at least one thread up to 101.
Out of the molasses jug - Cindy Davis & Elizabeth Mabe (Natural food recipes, gareding charts, grandfather tales, herb lorehints on getting by, and much more) 1974
Cloudburst - a handbook of rural skills and technology - Vic Marks (editor) 1973
Victory Cook Book - Nostalgic food and facts from 1940 - 1945 - Marguerite Patten
Northern Cook Book - Eleanor A Ellis - I picked this up at our local second hand book shop in a hurry, thinkning it was about Northumbrian cooking - it turned out to be about Canadian cookery so I now have a recipe for roasting polalr bears and breaded beaver tails but there are some other rather wonderful reipes for stuff I can buy at the local shop or grow in the garden or make from the store cupbaord!!!
Let us be lovely
And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
Edward Monkton
Member of the Ish Weight Loss Club since 10/1/11 Started at 12st 8 and have lost 8lb so far!
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How about books that won't teach you anything about how but still make you think?
One of my favourite novels is Earth Abides by George R Stewart. A disease ravages the globe and kills almost everyone; the survivors go from subsisting on the leftovers like tinned goods in the supermarket, to trying to keep alive knowledge of self-sufficiency, to....
I'll say no more, to try and avoid spoilers, but if you enjoy thought-provoking fiction, this is a good one to read.
Alas Babylon! - Pat Frank
No blade of Grass - John Christopher
The Sixth Winter
Down to a Sunless Sea
Anything by Paul Erdman or John Wyndam
A number of novels from Robert Heinlein but Farnhams Freehold is a good start
Atlas Shugged - Ayn Rand (A classic of survivalist literature and like a lot of "classics" I found it overly long and pretty tedious)
Lucifers Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
I used to read almost nothing else but this sort of literature back in the eighties. My favourites would be Alas Babylon and Lucifers Hammer. I am sure that there is some more recent stuff around though in a similar vein.
Believe it or not I actually happen to have an extra copy of Alas Babylon if anybody wants to have a go at it.