Prepare for Anything (Paperback Edition): 338 Essential Skills | Pandemic and Virus Preparation | Disaster Preparation | Protection | Family Safety (Outdoor Life) - Softcover

MacWelch, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1681882973 ISBN 13: 9781681882970

Publisher: Weldon Owen, 2017

Synopsis

A smaller, more affordable edition of Outdoor Life’s bestselling Prepare for anything. Full of the same must-have information found in the full-size flexi edition, it is an extensive guide to preparing for the worst life can throw at you. 

Are you preparing for the collapse of society? Concerned about making it through the next category 4 hurricane? Looking to be less dependent on an increasingly fragile infrastructure? If so, you are definitely not alone. In this timely follow-up to The Ultimate Survival Manual, Prepare for Anything is packed with hundreds of gear recommendations, skills, and survival tips and strategies to help you be ready for anything. From an economic collapse to natural disasters to government surveillance, this book has you covered.

GEAR UP Learn where to begin, from stocking and storing your food and water correctly to buying the right gear for your area, as well as how to create the perfect Bug-Out Bag—and emergency plan—for any situation. 
 
GET SKILLED Fortune favors the prepared—and the multi-talented. When disaster strikes, will you know how to perform first aid, defend your home, and remain self-reliant? Learn skills that will get you through everything from a power outage to a hurricane to the apocalypse. 

SURVIVE ANYTHING If the worst happens...what happens next? Your survival, if you're read this book. You'll learn how to handle everything from organizing a community and protecting your homestead to growing food, purifying water, and even making weapons. 

Prepare for Anything will take you through potential threats and teach you how to become prepared for them. This is the book for the preppers all over America. With hands-on hints, easy-to-use checklists, and engaging first-person stories to break down the crucial do’s and don’ts, you know how to ride out whatever Mother Nature, the government, foreign powers, or modern society can throw at you.

About this title

From the Author:

Tim MacWelch is the New York Times bestselling author of Prepare for Anything, Hunting & Gathering, and How to Survive Anything, and Winter Survival Handbook. He is Outdoor Life magazine's survival blogger. For two decades... He is also the founder and head instructor of Advanced Survival Training School; where he teaches ordinary people how to detach from the grid and live closer to nature, and how to use those skills in any number of emergencies.

For over 110 years, Outdoor Life has provided outdoor and urban survival expertise to millions of readers. Their authors have written on everything from disaster preparedness to subsistence hunting and fishing, to which guns to use against the undead (really!).

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TIP 111: BUILD A SOLAR STILL
 
The solar still is a simple invention that collects water and distills through a greenhouse effect. It’s not perfect, nor does it collect massive quantities of water, but it does provide fresh water in arid climates and it can effectively desalinate saltwater.
In the original method developed in the 1970s, a square of clear or milky plastic is draped over a pit with a clean cup in the bottom. The plastic at the edge of the pit is sealed with a rim of dirt or stones to keep any of the steam from escaping. The plastic sheet is weighed down in the middle with a small rock, pushed down to shape the plastic into a cone shape. The sun will create a steamy environment under the plastic, and the steam will condense on the underside, running down into the cup below. Each site works for days, and you may get a up to a liter of water per still per day.
 
STEP 1 Set up the still in a sunny area with the dampest dirt or sand available.
 
STEP 2 Make certain that the point of the cone of plastic is directly over the container inside the still.
 
STEP 3 Add vegetation inside to increase production.
 
STEP 4 Urine can be recycled by peeing down a hole dug next to the still so the liquid can soak through the ground and vaporize into the still.
 
STEP 5 A rubber, plastic, or vinyl drinking tube can be placed in the cup and lead outside the still. This way, water can be sipped as it collects without having to take the whole still apart to get the water out.

About this edition

• Publisher: Weldon Owen
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1681882973
• ISBN 13: 9781681882970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256