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






- 2024
- 2024
Outdoor Skills for Kids provides readers with essential information on wilderness survival with colorful illustrations, activities, and anecdotes expertly curated 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010
Knack First Aid: A Complete Illustrated Guide
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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.
- 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.