The 1970s back to the land movement failed, although it did produce some insightful books which people who hope to survive the coming storm should buy in hard cover now, while they still can. There are also some real bargains on Kindle, which can also be preserved, such as this little monster for just $ 12: https://www.amazon.com.au/d/Homesteading-Z-Books-1-Bundle-ebook/B072B8MVXN/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1497166664&sr=8-7&keywords=homesteading.
I am not in the book advertising business, but I think there is an answer to the question raised by Eleanor Agnew in Back to the Land (see: http://energyskeptic.com/2011/why-back-to-the-land-failed/), about why the back to the land movement in the 1970s failed. Sure, these people from white affluent families were not ready for the hard toil of farm life and romanticised it, but beyond all else, they were not educated about the ways of the rural. It is best to have grown up in a rural environment to really know what it is like to fight a bushfire, or combat flood, but obtaining knowledge from books is a great help. This was not done in the past, so the movement failed.
As well, as this was mainly a revolt by white affluent people against modernity, they always had the choice of returning to jobs. But, that choice has now gone, so there may be no more option but to succeed in an alternative lifestyle, or starve. When cities become too dangerous to live in, in the coming anarchy, failure will not be an option: https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/why-so-much-anarchy.