100 skills you'll need for the end of the world (as we know it)

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Future Tense; 1. Animal Husbandry; 2. Barbering; 3. Bartering; 4. Basic First Aid; 5. Beekeeping; 6. Bicycle Repair; 7. Bird Listening; 8. Blacksmithing; 9. Borrowing & Lending; 10. Brining; 11. Butchering; 12. Cairn Building; 13. Canning; 14. Capturing Energy; 15. Carving; 16. Cheesemaking; 17. Child Rearing; 18. Chimney Cleaning; 19. Cloud Reading; 20. Cobbling; 21. Composting; 22. Conversing; 23. Cutlering; 24. Daydreaming; 25. Dental Health; 26. Disposing of Trash; 27. Dowsing; 28. Dry Farming; 29. Falconry; 30. Fence Building.;What skills will you need after a global catastrophe? Whether it's the end of oil, an environmental disaster, or something entirely unforeseen, Ana Maria Spagna outlines 100 skills you'll find indispensable for life after the apocalypse. Once the dust has settled, you'll need to know how to barter, perform basic first aid, preserve food, cut your own hair, clean a chimney, navigate by the stars, stitch a wound, darn socks, and sharpen blades. You'll also want to build a stable and safe community, so you'll need to master the arts of conversation, child raising, listening, music making, and storytelling. This fascinating and entertaining book, full of quirky illustrations by artist Brian Cronin, will provoke surprise, debate, and laughter while it provides a road map to greater self-reliance and joy, whatever the future brings. Cover 1 Title Page 2 Copyright 3 Table of Contents 4 Future Tense 7 1. Animal Husbandry 10 2. Barbering 12 3. Bartering 14 4. Basic First Aid 16 5. Beekeeping 20 6. Bicycle Repair 22 7. Bird Listening 24 8. Blacksmithing 28 9. Borrowing & Lending 30 10. Brining 32 11. Butchering 34 12. Cairn Building 36 13. Canning 38 14. Capturing Energy 40 15. Carving 42 16. Cheesemaking 44 17. Child Rearing 46 18. Chimney Cleaning 48 19. Cloud Reading 50 20. Cobbling 52 21. Composting 54 22. Conversing 56 23. Cutlering 58 24. Daydreaming 60 25. Dental Health 62 26. Disposing of Trash 64 27. Dowsing 66 28. Dry Farming 68 29. Falconry 70 30. Fence Building 72 31. Financial Literacy 74 32. Finding Your Way 76 33. Fire Fighting 80 34. Fire Making 82 35. Fletching 84 36. Foraging Locally 86 37. Foraging Medicinals 88 38. Foraging Weeds 92 39. Frugality 94 40. Gleaning 96 41. Gliding 98 42. Graffity 100 43. Grafting 102 44. Growing Rural 104 45. Growing Urban 106 46. Handwriting 108 47. Hiding 110 48. Hoarding 112 49. Homebrewing 114 50. Home Childbirth 116 51. Horse & Mule Handling 118 52. Houseguest Hosting 122 53. Hunting 124 54. Identifying Mushrooms 128 55. Ink Making 130 56. Knitting 132 57. Knot Tying 134 58. Latin Names 138 59. Latrine Digging 140 60. Laughing 142 61. Listening 144 62. Memorizing 146 63. Mending 148 64. Music Making 150 65. Negotiating 152 66. Patching 154 67. Planting Natives 156 68. Planting Trees 158 69. Porch Sitting 160 70. Pottery Making 162 71. Reading 164 72. Revising 166 73. Rigging 168 74. Rowing & Paddling 170 75. Sailing 172 76. Seed Collecting 174 77. Seed Saving 176 78. Sharpening 178 79. Shelter Building 180 80. Sleeping 184 81. Snowshoe Crafting 186 82. Spinning 188 83. Splicing 190 84. Squatting 192 85. Staying Home 194 86. Stoneworking 196 87. Storeytelling 198 88. Tailoring 200 89. Tanning 202 90. Tapping 204 91. Tending 206 92. Tinkering 208 93. Using Leverage 210 94. Walking 212 95. Water Collecting 214 96. Wearing Clothes 216 97. Weaving 218 98. Welding 220 99. Wheel Building 222 100. Whittling 224 Acknowledgments 225 From celestial navigation to sharpening blades, Ana Maria Spagna outlines 100 skills you'll find indispensable for life after an apocalyptic global catastrophe. She covers obvious needs like first aid and farming, while also providing suggestions on how to build a safe and culturally rich community through storytelling and music making. Full of quirky illustrations by Brian Cronin, this book will provoke surprise, debate, and laughter as it leads you to greater self-reliance and joy — whatever the future brings.