Contains 100 interesting way to go, from our renowned outdoors doctor-storyteller Buck Tilton.
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100 interesting way to go, from our renowned outdoors doctor-storyteller Buck Tilton.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Morbidly funny, breezy, yet highly educational,
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This review is from: How to Die in the Outdoors: 100 Interesting Ways (Paperback)
This book tells you about all the dangers in the great outdoors and how you could possibly get sick and die from them. It describes in graphic detail all the symptoms you will experience from everything from jellyfish stings to polar bear attacks to tse-tse fly bites. For the morbidly curious, the book spares no gorey detail about diarrhea, vomiting, cramps, drooling, bleeding, and convulsing. In a very straight forward style and easy to understand terms, Tilton brings you specific information on these potentially dangerous plants and critters of the wilderness. He doesn't get bogged down in too much science, yet gives you just enough information to laugh, learn, and hopefully avoid the pitfalls contained in this hilarious yet educational tome. All learning should be this much fun.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Avoid getting bitten, stomped on or stung, and don't eat wild mushrooms!,
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This review is from: How to Die in the Outdoors: 100 Interesting Ways (Paperback)
I read this short (110 pages), tongue in cheek book, because the author, Buck Tilton, had written an excellent short book on first aid in the wilderness, "Backcountry First Aid". So since the reviews on Amazon for this book were pretty good, I decided to give it a read.
The best that can be said about it, is that it is a very quick read, and it is mildly amusing. Tilton devotes a page and a couple of hundred words to 100 different outdoor menaces, from Cape Buffalo, and various sharks, to varieties of parasites and stinging insects. And he offers some basic advice, like avoid getting stepped on by rhinos, don't eat mushrooms in the wild, that sort of stuff. Each entry begins and ends with a witty aphorism or pithy statement. The book is OK, but as a genuine guide to avoiding outdoor dangers, has nothing particular to offer.
4.0 out of 5 stars
funny and informative,
This review is from: How to Die in the Outdoors: 100 Interesting Ways (Paperback)
an intelligent and witty look at survival situations, some of which might not be quite as relevant as others
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