Here's a "get-rich-quick" idea. Set up a website that allows a user to enter his/her location and it automatically pops up a list of possible threats, local wild edible/useful plants, weather patterns and temperatures, etc... Then allow the user to buy a bound, pocket-sized book containing that information along with normal survival skill information.

Anyone have the know-how/resouces to build such a thing? For the right price I'm willing to be your traveling researcher to find out the information.

-Blast

Personally, I prefer Taurus's approach.

When I first started "striking" Quartermaster in the USCG, I grabbed a standard gov't issue notepad and wrote down those items that I had to know, rarely used/needed, but had to have immediate access to when called upon.

Then I started adding notes on CBR Warfare, ASW, AAW, customs and courtesies, comms freqs, signal codes, etc, etc, etc. This notepad started out 1/4" thick and now it is >2" thick.

I am slowly but surely scanning this info into a book (minus some sensitve items). I think that after I get done, I will post a notice & offer it, via e-mail, to ETS'ers.

The SAS survival flick book was very popular but now out of print.

I don't know for sure, never having actually seen one, but the mini SAS survival manual might work...

Some of you might be interested in using this web app to create a pocket-sized reference booklet:

http://www.pocketmod.com/

With some creative folding and cutting, the printed output creates 8 pages per 8.5"x11" sheet of paper. It's limited (you can only format and create the 8 pages at a time), but worth playing with.