Back to the Wild: A Practical Manual for Uncivilized Times

This is the classiest, most thoughtful survival manual out there. Written by a French poet, activist, and artist who started France's first vegetarian organization and spent a lot of time thinking about the most practical and dignified ways to make it after a political or climate apocalypse cuts the power on our modern lives. Now it's been reissued and nicely designed, but the sort of tips it contains never goes out of date: Like how to find and cook food without a kitchen, how to drink clean water even when the world's gone to shit, how to find your way, treat your wounds, and most of all build a new, sustainable life.