Sipsey Street Irregulars: Praxis: Free Survival Library

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Praxis: Free Survival Library

Just received this email from Rocky, the Lighthouse Survival Librarian:

We've put together a free Skills Library for Preppers. It's more of an "aftermath" library since it's made up of several thousand books from the 1800s through early 1900s. They're all public domain books or expired copyrights which are freely available however they're scattered across history libraries and other sources all over the world and can be time consuming to track down.

They detail skills and knowledge that has been lost in the last few generations but are the skills people would need to survive, rebuild and prosper in the aftermath of an EMP event, natural or manmade.

There are a few places that sell them collected on CDs but that's a barrier to some people and we felt they should be freely available to everyone. We're trying to spread the word about the library and we've set up information so any other websites who care to can also post the links directly to the books without having to actually host all of them (40gb-50gb).

The library isn't complete yet but it's growing rapidly and we expect it to continue growing. The number of books that are suitable for inclusion is huge and I've barely scratched the surface.

http://www.lighthousesurvival.com/library.html

Rocky

Lighthouse Survival Librarian

p.s. We run a commercial site but also want to openly contribute something to the Prepper community as well. So we're using the commercial site to sponsor the library.

2 comments:

Black Rifle said...: oh, now that is GOOOOOD stuff; December 18, 2012 at 7:11 PM
Anonymous said...: Bookmarked in the Emergency Planning bookmark folder. Now, I just need the time to download the files. Thanks, Mike.; December 19, 2012 at 10:50 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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