Free Manuals to Download on Survival and Edible Plants

Everybody likes to get something for free and here’s a huge collection of free manuals for you to download. I have not had a chance to review all of them so I can’t say that everything they suggest is accurate.

Many of them are hundreds of pages long, so take your time reviewing them and making note of the books or pages in books that you may want to print out.

For some we could not easily find a free version, so we link to an Amazon page where you can purchase the book at a reasonable cost ($10-$20).

Survival Manuals

Urban Preparation Kit, Part 1, On Body Kit

Traps and Snares

Wilderness Survival Skills

Surviving Terrorism

Wilderness Survival

Survival Water Purification

Preserving Game Meats

Nuclear War Survival Skills

How to Build a Debris Hut

HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan

Combat Survival Evasion

Cold Weather Survival

Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

Alpine Living for SAR

Aids to Survival

Woodstravel

FM 21-76 US ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL

Survival In Cold Weather Areas

Survival, Evasion and Recovery

NEWER US Army Survival Manual

Marines Individual Terrorism Survival

USMC Winter Survival Course

Wilderness Evasion: A Guide to Hiding Out and Eluding Pursuit in Remote Areas

USMC Summer Survival Course

Manuals on Edible & Medicinal Plants

WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants

WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants Volume 2

WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants Volume 3

WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants Volume 4

Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada

Survival Medicine

Survival: How to Make Herbal Preparations

Edible Medicinal Plants

Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition

PDR for Herbal Medicines

Healing Pets With Alternative Medicine

Ethnobotany of the Forest Indians

Edible Wild Plants

Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herb Craft

A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes & Herbal Medicine

See our article here about cooking and eating wild mustard plants.

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29 thoughts on “Free Manuals to Download on Survival and Edible Plants”

  1. Thank you for making such a great collection of information available. I look forward to perusing each and gleaning what I can. Knowledge always has been and always will be the greatest tool to survival.

  2. It is like a breath of fresh air reading all that you do too help others get prepared when the SHTF. Your efforts are much appreciated and needed in times like these. Well done and good job brother.On a note, could you do something of bicycles and panniers for mountain touring,as you can tell by my adderss, Im acyclests and bike tour also TY Bearman.

  3. Veteran Who Is Preparing

    Thanks, didn’t have most of those in our electronic library/database.

    If you have an electronic database remember to have a a back-up in an EMP proof container along with a back-up computer.

  4. Thank you for your generosity of sharing such helpful information! I am in a process of installing water well (with a hand pump) too. I will keep a hard copy of your information.

    God bless,
    Jackie

  5. Thanks… I have filed them all on our 3 TB hard drive library and will save them accordingly for the future Generations out of the USA in a secure way and manner..
    Dougurs

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  6. thank you for putting this together. now loaded on the kindle with medical, gardening, building, mechanical and other useful manuals. its amazing how much can be had from public domain. I keep the kindle, a solar charger and a few various types of radios in static bags inside a small faraday container. hope it isn’t needed.

  7. Thanks a lot for all of the info. I agree that the mind is the most needed survival tool and most people do not have what they need. Thanks again

  8. Information like SURVIVAL should be shared generously but MOST do not! Thank you for being a stand-up decent person! I wish there was something I could return for your generosity!

    1. I understand where you’re coming from. Glad those free downloads are helpful. However, people spend hours researching, writing, and producing information, and shouldn’t be expected to provide it for free just because it’s “survival” related. They have overhead expenses, have families, etc. We don’t expect that of anyone else. Just a little pet peeve of mine.

  9. Truth should be free. Information should be free. It’s sad when everyone is so used to the system they will attack the ones sharing true info to those who have no monetary gifts to give for it. God bless all who speak and give truth. Freely

    1. This is interesting. So you believe if someone has spent hours and money to do research you’re entitled to the results of all that hard work for free? Sounds pretty lazy.

      1. I think Chaser is saying is that for the many who are suffering economically, earning only enough to support their family’s essential needs, they too should be able to get access to important information. Society/democracy cannot work if only those with disposable income have access to knowledge. It’s like church offerings, those who can give their donations, but those who cannot are still welcome.

  10. Thank you so much for all of this amazing information, I appreciate the time it took to bring all of this together to help us. We are definitely in the time where we need to be knowledgeable and self sufficient God bless

  11. Hey this really helps, don’t want to buy books on amazon so I just download these on my kindle and I was ready to go! thanks! is there anyway you could get one on here about just cooking wilde plants??

    1. Do a search on this site for “free manuals” or “free books”. There are quite a few different posts over the years and there may be one on that topic.

    1. Hey Bubba,

      Thanks for catching this. We’ll double check the links and make sure they’re working properly. This hasn’t been updated in a little while, so we must have missed it.

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