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How to Die in the Outdoors: 150 Wild Ways to Perish
The Book That Makes Dying by Heart Attack Seem Downright Boring
Simply by living a normal life, you have an excellent chance of becoming yet another statistic on the list of leading causes of death. But 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.
Simply by living a normal life, you have an excellent chance of becoming yet another statistic on the list of leading causes of death. But 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.
- GenresNonfiction
352 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2017
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September 26, 2026
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2.5*
The premise of this strted strong, but 150 attempts at pithiness in the same format for nearly 400 pages got REAL repetitive and tedious. I did learn a lot about interesting species I was unfamiliar with. I objected to the representation of canabalism with less than scientific information, and the retelling of a highly dubious whale tale (thought with the release of WHALEFALL, who knows...[eye roll]) I kind of wish I had bailed before the end but I rarely quit a book and it wasn't ~that~ bad.
2.5*
The premise of this strted strong, but 150 attempts at pithiness in the same format for nearly 400 pages got REAL repetitive and tedious. I did learn a lot about interesting species I was unfamiliar with. I objected to the representation of canabalism with less than scientific information, and the retelling of a highly dubious whale tale (thought with the release of WHALEFALL, who knows...[eye roll]) I kind of wish I had bailed before the end but I rarely quit a book and it wasn't ~that~ bad.
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