An Urban Survival Guide You Need to Have

This week’s DestinySurvival Amazon Pick of the Week is Tom Brown’s Guide to City and Suburban Survival (Field Guide), by Tom Brown. Though written in the 1980’s, it’s relevant enough to be recommended in Aboman’s Guide and earn a 4 out of 5 star rating on Amazon.com.

 

            When I looked up this guide on Amazon.com, I found several other field guides by Tom Brown available there. As it happens, the first sentence of this one is reprinted, and it says that Brown started writing this book after the Mid Atlantic and Northeastern states had experienced a huge snow storm. Sound familiar?

 

If you live in that part of the U.S., were you one of the last minute shoppers stocking up on groceries this past Friday? How well were you prepared? What would you do differently next time?

 

            One Amazon reviewer contrasts this book with Cody London’s When All Hell Breaks Loose. Brown’s focus is on survival in the here and now and avoiding emergencies, not quite so much in the aftermath of a major disaster.

 

What resources are available to you in the city that you may have overlooked or are unaware of? Brown’s book helps you find what’s there for you. This guide will help you get prepared if you live in the city or suburb. It has chapters on shelter, water, heat and light, food, crime, weather, and disasters. Appendices are on edible plants and animals and survival supplies.

 

            Get your copy of Tom Brown’s Guide to City and Suburban Survival by clicking on the image of the book below. That takes you to the Amazon.com page featuring the book. Place your order there. Get ready for the next emergency, whether it’s another big weather event, rising crime in your neighborhood, or another crisis that puts your  urban survival skills to the test.

 

  

 

Get more info on personal security and survival in the city.

 

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2 Responses to “An Urban Survival Guide You Need to Have”

  • We have several of Tom Brown’s books, including the Field Guide to City and Suburban Survival. That particular book has a lot of really good advice, especially with regard to ways to stay warm when the electricity is off, and there’s a really good section on reading weather patterns.

    I second the recommendation!

    Tom Brown is my husband’s favorite author and Brown’s Living with the Earth has been read many times ;).

  • John:

    Thanks for the testimonial, Wendy.

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