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Author Tilton, Buck, author

Title How to die Down East : 50 ways (from silly to serious) to kick the bucket in Maine / Buck Tilton ; illustrations by Mike Lynch

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Maine State Lib. Stacks  817 T581h 2018    AVAILABLE  
 Maine State Lib. Stacks  OFFSITE 817 T581h 2018 c.2  LIBR USE ONLY  
 UM Orono Special Collections  Maine F19.6 .T55 2018    LIBR USE ONLY  
Phys Descr 109 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Contents Battered by black bear -- Butchered by a blade -- Capped by carbon monoxide -- Fractured by a fall -- Fooled by frozen water -- Gobbled by great white shark -- Gone by gun -- Hardboiled by heatstroke -- Hindered by hypothermia -- Jinxed by jimsonweed -- Lit up by lightning -- Lambasted by logging truck -- Misled by mushroom -- Ravaged by rabies -- Roughed up by rip current -- Washed out by rogue wave -- Toppled by treefall -- Whipped by whirlpool -- Withered by wildfire -- Brutalized by beaver -- Bombarded by bee -- Beaten by black fly -- Bamboozled by browntail caterpillar -- Chewed by coyote -- Dinged up by deer -- Dive-bombed by deer fly -- Hijacked by hogweed -- Latched onto by leech -- Licked by lyme disease -- Messed up by moose -- Murdered by mosquito -- Obliterated by owl -- Put away by poison ivy -- Prickled by porcupine -- Ransacked by raccoon -- Rubbed out by red tide -- Savaged by seal -- Stuck by sea urchin -- Snipped by snapping turtle -- Wounded by wasp -- Wilted by West Nile -- Wasted by wolf -- If you don't believe it, can it still kill you? -- Abducted by Allagash aliens -- Freighted off to fairy land -- Grabbed by the ghost of Black's Woods Road -- Partaken of by Pamola -- Pounded by Pocomoonshine Lake monster -- Snatched by Sasquatch -- Squelched by sea serpent -- Waylaid by Wendigo.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note ORO: Bequest of Paul E. Taylor, M. D., Class of 1938
Subject Outdoor medical emergencies -- Maine -- Humor
Animals -- Maine -- Humor
Alt Author Taylor, Paul E., 1914-1978, donor. MeU
OCLC # 1005102972
ISBN # 1608939634
9781608939633