Ok so here goes a very specific request.

Picture this: the world, for whatever reason, collapses, and you don’t have a lot of time, or space, to pack a lot, and you yourself aren’t the most knowledgeable person when it comes to surviving in the wild (don’t know which berries are poisonous, how to filter water, how to craft snares or hunt, things like that), have barely any knowledge of medical stuff and/or how to treat a wound or anything else… like, you’re basically a spoiled city dweller who has 0 experience on how to survive after the collapse of society.

And like I said, you only have a medium or big backpack and limited time to pack essentials, clothes, food, and whatever else. Which book or books, that aren’t too big, or too heavy, would you take with you, that could help you survive the apocalypse? Aaaand, very important, it needs to be a book or books that can help you survive regardless of your location.

So, for example, you get it (the book), you take it with you on a trip to… idk, mumbai, or the fjords in Norway, or a safari in Africa or maybe you got to the Caribbean, or to someplace in South America, or you go to china; whatever, you take the book (cause you never know) and while abroad, collapse strikes and you’re left alone to fend for yourself in a strange land. Which book or books would help you survive even while abroad? Is there such a book? And if it’s more than one, they would need to be few books cause like I said, you gotta pack essentials so you can’t be carrying around a library in your backpack.

I know it’s a very specific request but I’m very curious if there’s like a sort of “universal survival guide” that can help anyone anywhere survive in the wild, and maybe also a “universal post apocalyptic survival guide” that rather than teaching you about which berries you can eat, it teaches you about things like “if shit goes gown, stay away from nuclear reactors because after enough time of no maintenance, they may go into meltdown and explode, killing anything in a 50 mile radius” or “most buildings have x amount of time before collapsing from lack of maintenance” or “how to create a generator from a wind mill using scraps found in old cars” or things like that, that have more to do with how to navigate a world after human civilization collapses.

Well… thanks for reading. Have a great day! :)