The Complete Book of Survival: How to Protect Yourself Against revolution,Riots, Hurricains, Famines and Other natural And Man-Made Disasters (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Barricade Books (March 25, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569801207
• ISBN-13: 978-1569801208
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #526,815 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete, well written, thought provoking, informative, June 29, 1999

By A Customer

Author Stahlberg has done an exceptional job of identifying virtually all threats to human survival/ well being - even a number which I had not previously considered. The book goes on to provide clear, usable strategies which can be brought into action to deal with such events, or circumstances. There is little that has been overlooked or left out in the development of this book and it does, indeed, represent a "Complete Book of Survival" - one that should be on the bookshelf of any person who is serious about being prepared for future threats.

35 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Unimpressive, even for a fringe lunacy book., December 25, 2000

By	Ryan Cruzan (Bridgeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

The Complete Book of Survival will be an important addition to the Fringe Lunacy section of any paranoid's personal library. Prepare yourself for the collapse of the American dollar, invasion by mars men, the tilting of the earth on it's axis, the impending race wars, and foreign nations controlling our weather. This book will help you to "recognize the signs of impending doom." (from the back cover - to be read with a scary voice)

With an uncertain future, we could all end up enslaved by invading space aliens or dead at the hands of marauding stockbrokers tomorrow. Or, as the author says so eloquently in the forward to the book, "There is another future - a future in which people reading this book will live longer, and in style too."(p. 8)

This book included useful, commonsense suggestions such as: "You're of no use dead."(repeated throughout the book and not necessarily true if those with you are hungry) and "If you are trapped in your car: stay in your car. (p.121); well thought out observations, ie."...the circus elephant dying a week after you shoot him is little comfort if he tramples you to death." (p. 54); and startling truisms like "One minute you're sipping a lemonade in your backyard, and the next you're looking at a wall of water ten stories high coming straight at you."(p. 279) or "Clothing fires are a sure way to get hurt." (p. 230)

Valuable checklists of necessary survival items seem to be a complete inventory of whatever the author had lying around his house at the time. Remember that when there is a disaster, you will be glad you brought along your flour sifter (p.24) and liquor (p. 32).

Sure, you laugh now. But forget this not: the cities will be destroyed, the countryside will be a nuclear wasteland, aliens will take our valuable deuterium crystals, and your children will be made to survive on whatever they can catch and kill themselves. Then we'll see who's laughing.

Probably the best advice given in this entire book is found on page 9 where the author tells us to buy a copy of the Encyclopedia of Survival. (Instead of this book I assume.)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars buy a Boy Scout Fieldbook instead, November 28, 1998

By A Customer

While this book sounds useful and interesting, it quickly departs the realm of practical advice and enters the world of fear and paranoia. While some of the basic advice is worthy (stock a 2 week food supply and plenty of water, keep cash on hand), most of the advice is given from a paranoid survivalist point of view with an amazing lack of good common sense. The advice for alien invasions is particularly entertaining. For those who still believe that the key to survival is to go native, a much more informative read is the Boy Scout Fieldbook.