➡ The book, “The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization,” is a comprehensive reference guide that covers a wide range of topics, from making penicillin and gunpowder to creating fire and finding water. It also includes detailed instructions on making rope, creating simple stone tools, building houses, and even performing basic medical procedures. The book is filled with intricate artwork and is considered a valuable resource for survival situations. It’s a compendium of human knowledge that could be useful in rebuilding civilization after a disaster.
➡ This text discusses a comprehensive guidebook that teaches various survival skills, from making primitive traps and leathercraft to beekeeping and biofuel production. It also covers how to extract sugar, make beer, identify metals, and even mine. The book further delves into making glass, rubber, paint, gunpowder, and refining oil. It also provides insights into creating tools, building structures, managing waste, understanding mechanics, and even making glasses and simple cameras. The guide concludes with everyday life skills like making a refrigerator, telephone, art, music, and games.

In the show The Walking Dead, in the later part of the series, a mysterious woman emerges and she has a book that contains all the secrets on how to rebuild civilization. Well, I think I found that very thing and I can’t wait to show it to you. Let’s get into it. Alright guys, so I came across an item recently that completely exceeded my expectations. I was very surprised by the quality of the depth of information in this book. It takes a lot to impress me with a book. I’ve seen pretty much every prepping book, but I’ve never seen anything like this.

This is different. It’s called The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization, and it’s a reference guide for pretty much everything you could possibly imagine. There’s pages in here where they talk about how to make penicillin, and they walk you through the steps of how you can use mold to make penicillin, and how to make gunpowder out of saltpeter, and, you know, just different things like that that even if they’re only providing you a cursory understanding, it still could be potentially useful. I think that this is, number one, a great gift. It’s also a great dip in reference guide, and indeed, it is a compendium of human knowledge, which could potentially prove useful in an SHTF situation.

So I just want to show you a bit of this book today, and you can be the judge. In addition to having an exceptional amount of detail in the book, there is also some really incredible psychedelic artwork. Whoever made this book, it must have taken them a long time. So they start off, obviously, where human civilization starts off, which is the creation of fire. They summarize the general principles of how to make a fire using friction fire. They talk about softwood, hardwood, how to create an ember, that sort of thing. So all the basic stuff. But as you can see, like just the level of detail in the artwork, it’s like where’s Waldo level of detail on every single page with a bit of magic mushrooms in there.

So here we get into how to find water. This is very general information. It shows you, for instance, where you might find drinking water, how far from the ocean you might have to go underground. If you’re going to dig a well, it talks about edible and inedible plants. Now, obviously, the principles here are very broad. So this is not going to be specific to your region. You’re going to want to get a specific edible plants guide for your region. Go and check out my video on preparedness literature and books, and that should give you some ideas as to where you can find those types of books.

But it gives you a broad overview of what you might need to look for. Here we go into how to make rope out of various natural materials. So it talks about how to braid things together to create ropes, how to use willow, which is a fairly common plant across North America. We also have how to create simple stone tools. So you see, we’re really starting off at the beginning of civilization here with hunting, gathering, how to flint nap, how to make arrows. You can see some very elaborate artwork and the pages have this rustic look to it.

And so here we get into simple housing. So how to make things like a sod house, how to use rocks, natural materials, igloos, teepees, things of that nature. What’s interesting is usually when you get a book like this that tells you how to make soap, they say go get some lye. But they don’t tell you what if you can’t just go to the store and buy lye. How can you make lye? So this actually tells you how to do it. So then they go into medicine. They talk about a variety of different healing herbs. I don’t see any marijuana anywhere.

I’ve been talking about marijuana way too much lately. Then we got steam bath. So this is like how to make your own sweat lodge. There’s a lot of healing properties. You want to clean yourself from the inside out. Lots of ways to do that. I mean, like, look at these, look at these illustrations, like this dragon coming out of this. I mean, somebody was on some good drugs when they wrote this book. So they got some medieval physiological, Grey’s Anatomy type stuff going on here. They show you how to make a splint. A splint’s easy, but like a gypsum cast.

So a cast out of natural materials that’s going to harden. That’s pretty cool. Classifications of different types of burns. Penicillin. Now this is a really cool page because it actually tells you how to use bread mold to make penicillin to extract the penicillin from the mold and then how to test it. So you actually have to find a sick person and then you get some of their, I think they call it sputum. I think that’s how you pronounce it. Putum. You put that in a Petri dish with your penicillin that you’ve created from your bread mold.

And if it turns a certain color, then it works. And if it doesn’t, then it doesn’t work. This is something that you never see anybody talk about in the preparedness community. But it is one of those things that always is one of the biggest concerns of preppers, which is why when we were able to finally get Chase medical on the scene and we could stock up on antibiotics. That was such a big deal because antibiotics are one of the things that really have probably saved more lives than any other medical innovation throughout history. We’re talking about billions of people.

Surgery tools. It’s almost like this book was written by aliens. If you came across this book in SHDF, I mean, this would be a godsend. So it even shows you how to do like a primitive blood transfusion. Of course, you should know your blood type dentistry. Okay, now this is this is pretty neat too, because it even shows you how to create laughing gas. So the raw materials that you need for an anesthetic, they’ve really thought of everything here because of course, dental pain is the worst kind of pain next to childbirth. I think it goes childbirth, dental pain.

So you need anesthetics. The laughing gas can actually induce sleep, but it can also make you not think about the pain. So they go over the core ingredients. Monium nitrate is what you need. So you can get that through composting certain things, or if you have gunpowder kicking around. It talks about childbirth, it shows you how to make a incubator, emergency systems, how to do a c-section, a one paragraph section on how to do a c-section. I don’t know if I’d be relying on this. But hey, if it’s all you got, you got to pull a Macbeth, do it up.

Everybody’s familiar with this. I’m sure you got your stockpile of N95 and gas masks. If you had to go bubonic plague style, you could make yourself one of these masks with all the herbs and stuff, which probably doesn’t work anymore. But they put this guy in there for good measure, just to show the general principles of filtration. They talk a lot about quarantine, isolation. So then they go into plants. They show you the main things that you should be looking at when it comes to an edible plant. So certain plants have various characteristics that are going to make them more likely to be toxic.

And that’s what it talks about. Now, this is where things get really psychedelic, fear and loathing in Las Vegas level of psychedelic. So we got fungi, although they don’t talk about the psychedelic effects. Clearly, this is Alex Grey inspired, right? Next, they got staple crops. This is very important. A lot of people go and they buy out their fancy survival seeds forgetting that a lot of those are not calorie dense. So they talk about what you’re going to need wheat, corn, chickpeas, oats, lentils, barley. I don’t think they have a section on potatoes, which is surprising.

Plow and tools. So they go into, you know, just the general principles of how a plow works, what it does, what is a combine do. So how to make alcohol, they have another section just on alcohol, but they’re actually talking here about the type of rain that is required in order to get a certain acidity in the fruit that then will make the best wine, how to make tea, and just these elaborate mosaic of people here drinking tea and all that good stuff, how to make coffee, how to make cocoa and chocolate. And they make an interesting point in here that chocolate is a great way to preserve fats and sugars.

And it’s a great like portable energy source. And that that was one of the reasons why it was created in the first place. Cool. So then we go into animals. They got like a primitive wolf trap here, which is pretty cool. So the wolf comes in because he smells the goat, and this is actually very narrow, so he can’t turn around. And so then he comes around here, and he pushes on this door and it traps them inside. Grouse pit, mouse traps, tension snares, so how to make all kinds of primitive traps, fishing, how to make different fishing traps.

You want to be trapping because hunting is too energy intensive. Leathercraft, so how to skin an animal and hand the hides and all that stuff. Livestock, so like look at this page, like this is just incredibly in depth. The reason why this book is so cool, and it actually borrows a lot, I think, from this book called John Seymour, the self sufficient life and how to live it. I would recommend getting this book as well, because it goes into a bit more depth. It shows you like where to plant water, what’s going to complement what, and it goes into much greater detail, but it’s just about homesteading.

Bee keeping, so if you want to make your post-apocalyptic apiary, honey is going to be worth a lot of money after shtf. We take it for granted. Biofuel, so they like take a look at this, like the cows got this thing like on his ass, looks like it’s collecting his cow farts or something. So they show you how to make biodiesel. Sugar, how to make sugar, how to extract sugar from different types of fruits and refine it. Curds and cheese, there’s a mouse on that cheese, that’s probably, it’s kind of nasty. Beer, how to make beer, so you know, get your hops and go to work.

Metals in various ores, so how to find different types of metals, where you might find them, what are their distinguishing features, what are they used for. Mining, so some of the general principles, safety considerations. Again, you’re not going out, you’re not tearing these pages out and then going to mine yourself some iron ore or anything like that, but it just gives you a general overview and an appreciation for really how complicated our society actually is. Glass, how to make glass. So many things on earth, isn’t there? Rubber, how do you make rubber from a rubber tree? Rectified spirit, so this is where we talk about how to make moonshine and things of that nature.

This section is pretty cool, it’s how to make paint. You know, paint can have a variety of uses, not just for decoration, but there’s certain, you know, camouflage applications. Gunpowder, this is our section, boys. So first it tells you how to make saltpeter, make a compost pile of manure with food scraps, and then later on in the book they show you how to actually make like a flintlock gun, which is pretty neat. How to refine oil, so if you are so lucky to come across oil in the apocalypse, what are you going to do with that oil? How are you going to refine it into the different types of gases, propane, diesel, gasoline? It shows you how to do that.

If anything, you know, this is just a book to enlighten a non-prepper as to the complexity of our civilization. Tools, so they got multi-tools, various tools, measuring tools, like how to create a compass, how to create a barometer, how to create a simple bubble level, a potter’s wheel, so how to, you know, pottery, ceramics, clay is going to be something that’s abundant. Forging, the general principles of metallurgy. Glue and duct tape, how to make glue. If you haven’t seen our video on how to make pine resin, some of the strongest stuff on earth. So you see, we’re kind of getting into more sophisticated types of tech here.

Mills, drills, how to build certain structures, bricks, how to make bricks, how to make cement out of raw materials, how to build a road that’s not just going to degrade in the first year. Arches and bridges, the general engineering principles, roofing tiles, water supply, sewage, how to get rid of your waste water, how to make reinforced concrete. Then they go into like mechanics. If you really want to go full on Eugene in The Walking Dead, timepieces, how to make a clock, cranes, so the mechanical advantage with the pulley systems. There’s a movie called The Mosquito Coast.

It stars Harrison Ford and he takes his family out into this deserted island or something like that. He starts building things out of pulleys and he builds all these elaborate systems and the moral of the story is, is he just brought all the problems of civilization with him. Optics, so this is important. All right, they show you how to make glass and then make glasses. We have a video coming up about this. 100% of people on the long enough timeline will need corrective eyewear. So what are you going to do if the shit hits the fan and there’s no optometrist around? Okay, so you’re gonna have to make your own glasses.

How to make the most rustic kind of camera. So they go back to like the first camera ever invented and they show you all the component parts. How electricity works. How a battery works. Okay, so how to make a simple battery out of natural materials. Like how cool is that? Then they get into more complex things like how to make a light bulb. How does an incandescent bulb work? They got this Mac guy in a mech suit. Hydraulics. It’s really good to know the principles of hydraulic pressure and how it works. Like how a tractor is able to move and convert combustion energy into hydraulic energy and then use that to move stuff.

How to build a steam engine, how to build a combustion engine, how to make a railroad, waste management. So they go into the military stuff. So self defense, basic weapons. They got flails, you know, armor and chain mail, bows and crossbows, siege engines. So the principles of like a trebuchet or a catapult, firearms, how to build a tank. Then they go into everyday life. So alarm clocks, toothbrushes, how to make a refrigerator. You know, like that’s, that’s pretty neat. Radio, telephone, how to make a telegraph, art, painting, tattoos, bonsai, trees, music, how to make a phonograph, rave.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, you know who wrote this book, right? Various games, you can make chess. And you know, what’s really cool about this book, you think like at the end, there’s going to be this big glossary or, you know, index, it just ends, it ends with festivals, then it’s the end. Like how cool is that? So there you have it. If you want one, go pick one up through the link in the description. Let me know what you guys think about this in the comment section below. Thanks for watching. Canadian Prepero. [tr:trw].

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