|
The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse |  | Author: Fernando Ferfal Aguirre
Publisher: Fernando Aguirre
Category: Book
Buy New: $24.95
as of 11/22/2009 03:05 MST details
New (1) Used (1) from $21.00
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 1037
Media: Paperback
Pages: 252
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.2
ISBN: 9870563457
EAN: 9789870563457
ASIN: 9870563457
Publication Date: September 11, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
| |
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
My book is a Modern Survival Manual based on first hand experience of the 2001 Economic Collapse in Argentina. In it you will find a variety of subjects that I consider essential if a person wants to be prepared for tougher times: -How to prepare your family, yourself, your home and your vehicle -How to prepare your finances so that you don't suffer what millions in my country went through -How to prepare your supplies for food shortages and power failures -How to correctly fight with a chair, gun, knife, pen or choke with your bare hands if required -Most important, how to reach a good awareness level so that you can avoid having to do all that These are just a few examples of what you will find in this book. It's about Attitude, and being a more capable person and get the politically correct wimp out of your system completely.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 20
 Surviving the Coming Collapse November 21, 2009
Douglas Johnson (Houston)
I haven't finished it yet, but the book appears to have some really good information. It will be expecially beneficial to those who live in rual environments. The writer is a bit short on vocabulary and grammar, but is certainly capable of conveying his thoughts and first hand experiences.
The Best Modern Survival Guide --PERIOD! November 21, 2009
Matthew Bracken (Jacksonville, FL USA)
Foreign Enemies And Traitors
I read this book in one non-stop session. It is the best modern survival guide I've read, by far. It's not oriented to a total grid-down (no electricity, forever) where you must already be living in a remote mountain fortress to survive roaming bands of cannibal biker zombies. Yes, that could happen, but it is far more likely that the USA will experience something similar to what Argentina went through in the last decade. Government services may nearly collapse, but the government won't disappear. This means that the police won't be able to protect you from gangs of armed home invaders, but they will eventually show up, and might arrest you for homicide, after you shoot a burglar on your property. The government will be corrupt and inefficient, but you will still have to deal with it.
The book is grounded in historical reality, not only from the Argentine collapse, but from many other historical precedents. The sections on armed and unarmed self defense are worth the price of the book. So is the section on living and working in a collapsed economy. Ferfal's first-hand experiences ring 100% true. This book is a crystal-ball view into our likely future in the USA. It is worth ten times the cover price. Buy it, you will be glad you did. Then lend it to your more naive friends and family members, so that they too can prepare themselves for the slow-motion economic and political train wreck that we're heading toward.
I've written three novels about America's future, and this book reinforces what I am already thinking. Buy this book and pass it on to those whom you care about.
Best Practical Urban Survival Guide! November 21, 2009
Mark36
Finally, a survival that makes practical sense. I don't think that the end-of-the world when zombies rule will ever occur. What I was looking for was something that covers a 2-4 week period and for someone in an urban/sprawl environment. This book meets my needs. I'm middle-age and not rich. I'm not going to be able to afford to buy, build, or get to a remote wilderness santuary. I will have to get by hunkering down where I live. That said, the most likely disaster that I will face will be a snow storm or the back end of a depleted hurricane with the associated power disruption, temporary shortages, and possible isolatation due to weather or flooding.
I don't think the US will experience the same situation as Mr. Aguirre faced in Argentina. However, this book will give you the food for thought as to how to view your potential situation, and how to build an affordable, executable and practical survival plan and suvival kit. This is a book about living and functioning in a disrupted and fractured society.
Best urban survival book. Highly recommended! November 17, 2009
Andrei SOSNIN (Tallinn, Estonia)
Albeit not very well proofread (this book deserves a second edition!), it is a very useful, straightforward book written in easy to understand English, full of very good advice on urban survival. Having first read Fernando's blog [...] I knew what I was buying.
The book is a well-structured manual-style material common with the blog, but apparently a lot more was added to it. The book addresses everything from (layman's) psychological and physical readiness to discussions about various weapons and tools that may become necessary when the "worse-case" scenarios happen.
Having grown up in a similarly collapsed world of ex-Soviet Union, in one of the worst economically-hit districts of Tallinn (Estonia's capital) back then -- Kopli, with many of those aspects (petty crime, widespread alcoholism, narcomania and crime associated with it) being described in Ferfal's book seen by myself and having a lot of trouble dealing with that back then, I can say that this book very useful.
This book has made my world perspective a bit wider, showing me that many things that are general to modern life is not specific to just Eastern Europe or Old World, but is more or less universal. I've also found a lot of advices to be very useful, generalizing my own hunble experience, too.
Highly recommended.
This book will probably catch you by surprise, more than once. November 12, 2009
Rufus (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
They say hindsight is 20/20. With this book, we can turn the author's hindsight into our foresight. Like everyone else has mentioned, Ferfal's first-hand knowledge gained from experience is invaluable, and as the adage goes, "Experience is the best teacher."
A number of topics the author brought up did indeed catch me completely by surprise, and that's a big part of what makes this book so valuable. The book dispelled numerous notions I've held, as well as shed enormous light upon a subject about which most Americans are woefully ignorant.
Some things he writes about are common themes we think we have a handle on ("buy gold, it's the only thing that will last!"), but the author's experience will even change the way you think about that, in a good way!
There is so much covered in this book - the print is not huge, neither are the margins, there is a LOT of material - that pretty much most aspects of daily life in a failed economy are covered, from the perspective of how to get through them more tolerably, if not comfortably, by being prepared ahead of time and by having the right mindset.
Sure, our situation may differ from Argentina's here and there, if for no other reason than because of our country's size, population and governmental makeup. But after reading this book, I've gone from being concerned but not at all knowing what to expect, to being able to imagine what's ahead on the horizon - and prepare for it - with a much higher degree of confidence than I had before.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 20
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. Working Dogs | |
