Urban Survival Guide: How City Dwellers Can Live Well, and Frugally, Even in Dire Times

by Christopher Nyerges

Overview

Practical Guidelines to Resourceful City Living, Self-reliance, Emergency Preparedness, and Getting More for Less

A survival guidebook that reflects the world in which we now find ourselves. The post 9/11 world seems a bit more hostile, as terrorist threats and attacks are no longer a surprise. The Great Tsunami of Christmas 2004 showed us that quick extinctions (like Noah’s flood) can and do happen without apparent warning. Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy not only told us that it can happen to us, but that it is foolhardy to make no preparations and pretend that the government will take care of you in the post-disaster landscape. The price of gold id rising again. War, rumors of war, famines, political instability, economic instability, global pandemics  – all these and more are causes of concern to the average family. Economic survival is also addresses, since this is such a fundamental building block of everything else in modern society. Money cannot be ignored.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510763159
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	1,034,289
File size:	56 MB
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Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Christopher Nyerges has been teaching ethno-botany and survival skills since 1974. He has worked with numerous organizations over the years and co-founded the School of Self-Reliance. He has authored numerous books on survival and self-reliance. He resides in Southern California. He can be contacted at www.SchoolOfSelfReliance.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword viii

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 The City: Is There an Ideal Form? 1

Chapter 2 Shelter: Our Personal Living Spaces 17

Chapter 3 Water: The Key to Life 51

Chapter 4 Food: Growing Your Own, and Storage Principles 91

Chapter 5 Cooking: Making Meals with Alternate Fuels 125

Chapter 6 General Hygiene: Toilet, Bathing, Washing, Soaps, et al. 143

Chapter 7 Integral Health: Some First Aid and Natural Healing Considerations 175

Chapter 8 Utilities: Living Better with Less 201

Chapter 9 Alternate Communications 209

Chapter 10 Better Use of Resources 217

Chapter 11 Other Considerations (Economic and Otherwise) 233

Chapter 12 A Six-Step Plan to Address Climate Change 255

Chapter 13 Final Comments 261

Reading List and Resources 271

Appendix 273

About the Author 275

Index 277