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Buck Tilton

    Knots You Need: Step-By-Step Instructions for More Than 100 of the Best Sailing, Fishing, Climbing, Camping, and Decorative Knots
    Hiking and Backpacking
    Knots for Kids
    Medicine for the Backcountry
    Knack First Aid: A Complete Illustrated Guide
    Wilderness First Responder
    • 2024

      Wilderness medicine expert and Backpacker magazine columnist Buck Tilton covers every step needed for the best hiking and backpacking experience.

      Hiking and Backpacking
    • 2024

      Outdoor Skills for Kids provides readers with essential information on wilderness survival with colorful illustrations, activities, and anecdotes expertly curated for kids.

      Outdoor Skills for Kids
    • 2022

      Wilderness First Responder

      How to Recognize, Treat, and Prevent Emergencies in the Backcountry

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Focusing on backcountry emergencies, this comprehensive guide offers in-depth knowledge on recognizing, treating, and preventing medical issues in remote settings. Authored by wilderness expert Buck Tilton alongside a team of medical professionals, the updated text draws on over 150 years of combined experience in wilderness medicine and rescue. It serves as an essential resource for wilderness educators, trip leaders, guides, and search and rescue teams, making it invaluable for anyone engaged in outdoor activities away from immediate medical assistance.

      Wilderness First Responder
    • 2022

      Knots for Kids

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Knots for Kids delivers relevant, expertly curated content perfect for kids. Outdoor skills expert and veteran author Buck Tilton provides readers with accessible information on choosing the best knot for the situation, tying different types of common knots and hitches, selecting the best kinds of rope, and much more. With step-by-step instructions (for both righties and lefties!) on tying the most used and useful knots, this is the perfect book to teach children how to tie knots like the experts.

      Knots for Kids
    • 2018

      How to Die Down East

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Maine is certainly an exciting place, with a plethora of outdoor activities to pursue. It's also generally a safe place and most of those activities can be done by those with little to no experience. Don't let that lull you into a false sense of security however, there are numerous ways to perish in Maine's outdoors. Now, renowned wilderness medicine expert and storyteller Buck Tilton casts his glance on these dangers. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, Tilton takes a humorous look at just how you might die in Maine, and what he finds runs the gamut from downright deadly to uncomfortable, but unlikely to kill, to just plain silly. Some of nature's methods are distinctly possible without proper precautions, from rogue waves to rip currents to great white sharks. Others amount to simply wishing you were dead, like stepping on a sea urchin. And others cross the boundary into the nonsensical, such as being singled out by Sasquatch. Broken into sections depending on severity and likeliness of actually dying, all the entries are told with a storyteller's ear for humor and whimsy. Many are illustrated in full color by Maine cartoonist Mike Lynch.

      How to Die Down East
    • 2018

      Complete Book of Fire

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      " ... The ultimate guide to properly building, enjoying, and extinguishing campfires."--Page 4 of cover.

      Complete Book of Fire
    • 2017

      How to Die in the Outdoors

      • 337 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The Book That Makes Dying by Heart Attack Seem Downright Boring By living a normal, boring life, you have an excellent chance of becoming yet another statistic on the list of leading causes of death. Of course, the process can be accelerated a bit by forgoing exercise, eating poorly, smoking, drinking heavily, and worrying. Buck Tilton prefers to ponder the alternatives. In How to Die in the Outdoors, he presents 150 more interesting and unique ways to perish, from snake bite, elephant foot, rhino horn, and more! With witty prose, Tilton describes not only the details of how you can die-some intriguingly gory, yet all based on facts-but also ways to avoid death should a life-threatening situation arise before you're ready to leave this world for whatever afterlife there may be.

      How to Die in the Outdoors
    • 2012

      Outward Bound Ropes, Knots, and Hitches

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Knot-making is simpler than ever. This revised easy-to-follow guide, published in partnership with Outward Bound, includes information on using knots in your favorite outdoor activities.

      Outward Bound Ropes, Knots, and Hitches
    • 2010

      Offering essential skills for emergency situations, this guide provides clear, step-by-step instructions complemented by 450 full-color photos. It covers a wide range of common injuries and illnesses, teaching readers how to recognize, manage, and prevent them. Key topics include CPR, bleeding and shock, spine and head injuries, fractures, and allergic reactions. With a focus on practical techniques, it equips individuals with the necessary tools to effectively respond to medical emergencies and save lives.

      Knack First Aid: A Complete Illustrated Guide
    • 2010

      The first teaching manual ever for the Wilderness First Responder course, this title represents the cutting edge in medical training for wilderness rescue and self care. The schools affiliated with Tilton's program include the Wilderness Medicine Institute, a subsidiary of NOLS, and SOLO.

      Wilderness First Responder