alt Hacker NewsWe had a set called something like “How to do anything in an emergency” which had instructions for this and more. Alongside lots of creative uses of potassium permanganate.
I’m pretty sure it also told you how to butcher a sheep.
I used to be obsessed with it as a kid. The spectre of nuclear war and a three volume handbook on how to survive the impending apocalypse with nothing more than a plastic bucket, a packet of potassium permanganate, some charcoal and string. The late 80s and early 90s were a wild time to be a kid.
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Have you re-read it recently? Some of those books were fun to read but not really something to use as a field manual. Then again some of them were great! I had a book that started with explaining how a battery and a light globe worked, went through how to make a DC motor out of copper wire and a cork, and ended with a crystal radio and I think a radio homing beacon (the latter might have been in another book.)
I have a bunch of military field manuals and survival guides, but they all implicitly presume the existence and contactability of civilization sooner or later. Realistically, some pocket computer(s) and solar charger(s) will store far more information, be far more portable, and give you more carrying capacity for things like medical supplies, rope, tools, and other hard-to-substitute items.