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Title: RAGNAR'S URBAN SURVIVAL: A HARD-TIMES GUIDE TO STAYING ALIVE IN THE CITY by Ragnar Benson ISBN: 1-58160-059-3 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a bad starting point...
Comment: Mr. Benson's guide to urban survival is an interesting, if not very deep, guide to surviving some very hard times in an urban area. He touches on all the basic topics that one will need to know about in order to survive, and applies a basic 'rule of threes' strategy to all of them. Unfortunately, the book never gets beyond the basics of the topics presented. You're also going to have to wade through a lot of contradictory information to assess what is best for your situation. For example, he discourages solar power as it is expensive and could compromise the location of your retreat, but he praises the noisy and expensive diesel generator later. Overall though, this book is worth a read. One very strong word of caution, however. Take his food storage section with a very large grain of salt. The information presented there is dubious at best, and his guide to canning meats with a steam bath canner could very well get you killed.
Rating: 3
Summary: Urban survival? How about history of urban survival in war.
Comment: This book is more about the history of urban survival, rather than a survival guide. The info contained within is very vauge. He uses more examples of what other people have done rather than teaching you what to do. What info there is, is quite good, but only a few pages of the book are usefull. If you can get the book used at a real good price it would be good to have just to give you a reference for what the worst case could be, but as a survival guide it fails to instruct on the techniques of urban survival in any significant manner.
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than I expected...
Comment: When I first saw this book I wasn't going to buy it. Too many of these survival books just rehash the same info just to sell a book. But I'm embarased to say because of the title I tried it. I was surprised it was alot better than expected. Ragnar really did focus on urban survival and used quite a few quotes, stories and examples from other real life survivors in urban invironments. This book is fresh compared to his last few books. Because of this book I'm going to buy his next book Survival Nursing. Benson was starting to get stale but he is back!
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Title: The Survival Retreat by Ragnar Benson ISBN: 0873642759 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ragnar's Guide to the Underground Economy by Ragnar Benson ISBN: 1581600119 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival by Jack A. Spigarelli ISBN: 0936348070 Publisher: Cross-Current Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens ISBN: 1882723252 Publisher: Gold Leaf Press (WA) Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles ISBN: 156384155X Publisher: Huntington House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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