title: The Close to Home Survival Guide: A Close to Home Collection
author:  John McPherson 
description: John McPherson seems like such a normal guy: He lives in New York, holds degrees in mechanical engineering and English, and remains a loving husband and father to two boys. But somewhere along the way he went over the edge-and hit the rest of the world Close to Home.
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  A PLUME BOOK
  
  
  ESCAPING HOME
  
  
  A. AMERICAN has been involved in prepping and survival communities since the
  early 1990s. An avid outdoorsman, he has spent considerable time learning
  edible and medicinal plants and their uses as well as primitive survival
  skills. He currently resides in North Carolina on the edge of the Pisgah
  National Forest with his wife of more than twenty years and his three
  daughters. He is the author of _Going Home_ and _Surviving Home_.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [_About the Author_](02_Copyright.xhtml)
  
  
  [_Also by A. American_](04_Also_by_A_American.xhtml)
  
  
  [_Title Page_](05__Title_Page.xhtml)
  
  
  [_Copyright_](06_Copyright.xhtml)
  
  
  [_Dedication_](07_Dedication.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](08_Acknowledgments.xhtml)
  
  
  [Prologue](09_Prologue.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](10_Chapter_1.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](11_Chapter_2.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](12_Chapter_3.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](13_Chap