From the Editors

A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness, it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food, storing fuel, alternate energy, emergency evacuation kits, medical and dental, surviving biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism, communications, selection of firearms and other survival tools, and preparing for earthquakes. <P>Dozens of detailed, expert checklists and tables with photographs and index. Extensive book and resource lists with regular and Internet addresses. An absolute must for those serious about preparing for and surviving during our dangerous times.
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nice basic guide
This is a nice basic guide with an overview for some overall preparedness. A good guide if you have no clue for emergency preparedness. Being a paperback, it will be easy to take with you and keep accessible to check often. Easy to find info.

Tons of survival information!!
I've had time to read select chapters of this book, and one thing is for sure, there is tons of information on being prepared in a crisis situation. I have come to the conclusion that I am not prepared at all, and I do have a Emergency Evacuation Kit. I feel that to be as prepared as this book details, you would have needed to start gathering items 20 years ago and would have spent thousands of dollars in doing so. This book is very infomative, but you will need to decide what you think your most imminent crises would be, and then tailor your kit to that. In reading this book, I feel that the things I have prepared would be very inadequate at best. All in all, I would recommend this book for a detailed list of supplies to have on the ready.

Nothing on zombies
Good book but unfortunatly has nothing to teach us about the impending Zombie Apocalypes.

My freinds... that is the true danger facing mankind today.

An in-depth and informative book
This book is extremely well thought out, researched and written. Mr. Spigarelli has left almost no stone unturned in laying out a survival storage system for food, water, and other aspects of both short and long term personal storage.

Of the half dozen or so I have read, this book is absolutely the best. I have given copies to my family members and I highly recommend it.

Packed full of information - a valued addition to any preparedness library
This is a very insightful and well constructed book. There is a TON of information. It does lean heavily on food storage, dedicating nearly 2/3 of its 315 pages to various facets of food (production, preservation, storage). The remaining 100+ pages discuss things like clothing/bedding; Heat, cooking and light, Medical/dental; sanitation/personal care; communication, etc.
There are more than 2 dozen checklists which are very comprehensive and detailed. In my opinion these checklists combined with the nearly 20 pages of resources (pp 295-314) and other books recommended (chapter 31 - Survival Library pp 297-304) make the book worth purchasing. However - this great strength can also be a weakness, make sure the copy you buy is current. The first and second printings were back in the 1980's and don't contain updated resource lists ( a lesson I learned when purchasing Making the Best of Basics by James Talmadge Stevens). The older editions, I suspect are equally useful resources but won't have the very best part of the book.

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