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How to Die in the Outdoors: 100 Interesting Ways

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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.

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.

an intelligent and witty look at survival situations, some of which might not be quite as relevant as others

As an active outdoorsy girl, I have read this book many times. This is a funny way of explaining dangers in the outdoors for anybody that is interested. Very realistic and quite helpful! GREAT BOOK!

This book is great! The author shares a lot of detailed information about dangerous animals / situations you might encounter outdoors that can lead to death. And he describes it in a very entertainment, yet funny style. This book is suited for both adults and kids.

This book is soooooooo fabulous, I read it when I was in 4th grade and know after years and years I still love this highly funny and informative book. This book can be a real lifesavor, for this book is cut up into sections (short chaptors)and one is ruined by reclus, well I learned what exactly they look like and I found some in my own house I might have picked it up not knowing what it was. This is the best book.