Seriously, look into online piping tutors. There are several people who do give online lessons.

The Green Book is a standard for starting out, but not at all a self-teaching method. Be warned, it is meant to remind you of what your instructor is teaching you, not provide an alternate method of learning. For a ground-up manual, check into William Robertson's excellent tutor. He sells it on CD and it really is good. It still won't teach you to play the pipes without a teacher, but it might help a lot.

There are a very few people who have done it well without a teacher. Every one of them will probably tell you to try your best to get a teacher. There are a lot of subtleties in piping that can very easily be got wrong without a teacher to correct your bad technique before it becomes permanent.

Good luck!

-Patrick