44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tom Brown's Field Guide: City and Suburban Survival, September 19, 2008
This review is from: Tom Brown's Guide to City and Suburban Survival (Field Guide) (Paperback)
The purpose behind this book differs significantly from Cory Lundin's
When All Hell Breaks Loose, which I previously reviewed, even though both books are concerned with survival within a city. Whereas Lundin focused on post-disaster survival -- mainly within the confines of your home and backyard and dependent upon your own resources -- Tom Brown differs in that he imagines the reader needing to survive a personal emergency, with the rest of the city essentially unaffected. He allows, therefore, that you may have uninvited access to city resources outside your home, such as water and shelter in public areas, and restaurant or grocery store dumpsters for food.
He schools the reader in the basics of how electricity and water are supplied in a city and how they move within a house. An entire chapter is devoted to how weather occurs. Avoiding an emergency is as much his intent as surviving one. It is not till the end of the book that he discusses disasters and how to deal with them. Unlike Lundin, Brown briefly shows a debris hut, fire by friction, and a few traps.
Chapter titles: Introduction, Shelter, Water, Heat and Light, Food, Crime, Weather, Disasters, Enjoying the City. Appendices: Common Urban Edibles, Common Urban Animals, Survival Supplies.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good ideas on how to survive in the Big City, July 23, 2001
This review is from: Tom Brown's Guide to City and Suburban Survival (Field Guide) (Paperback)
Where to get food, water, shelter in the city? What happens when there's a disaster? This book is a decent start. Lots of helpful chapters on how to get the essentials, as well as what common edible plants grow in the city.
Another food-for-thought thing you can read is the chapter in Way of the Scout (also by Brown) on his first solo trip to New York City.
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great boook full of usefull information, August 2, 1996
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This review is from: Tom Brown's Guide to City and Suburban Survival (Field Guide) (Paperback)
Was not based on a survival aspect as much as a preparation
aspect, but was still good anyway.
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