How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It

Survival techniques for adverse circumstances

There is a reason you are holding this book in your hands. Nothing happens entirely by chance. I believe that soon you will be ready to set out on a path that will lead you not only to greater logistical preparedness, but also to mastering valuable skills that will benefit you throughout your life. These skills will make you more confident. Combined with the right tools, they will help you become fully self-reliant, regardless of the hardships you may one day face. When you are well prepared and trained, you will also be able to share your skills and part of your extra supplies with relatives, neighbors, and friends who were not as far-sighted.

James Wesley Rawles is the founder and editor of SurvivalBlog.com – the most popular website on the Internet for family preparedness for disasters, cataclysms, and catastrophes. He is a world-renowned expert in a wide range of fields, including food storage, fuel storage, self-defense, communications, retreat security, emergency backpacks and kits, specialty vehicles, retreat design, self-sufficiency through farming and small livestock, as well as a variety of traditional survival skills for living independently.

The author is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His crisis-preparedness clients include Fortune 500 CEOs, clergy, entrepreneurs, and financial managers. Influential Rawles not only talks the talk, but also takes action: he lives with his family in a well-prepared, self-sufficient retreat located „somewhere west of the Rockies”. Rawles is also the author of the book „Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse”, described as „a survival manual cleverly disguised as a novel”, as well as two other novels devoted to the same subject.