Medicine for the Backcountry

by Frank Hubbell and Buck Tilton

Book Overview

Directed at the layperson, this superbly useful book on wilderness medicine makes a fairly complicated subject easy to understand. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570340021
• ISBN13: 9781570340024
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: ICS Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Just perfect!

Thank you for having this book in your inventory. We are in the backwoods a great deal and I needed a guide that was small enough to carry, but comprehensive enough to be of value in the backwoods. This book is the best of its kind I have found. Thank you for your timeliness in sending the book and thank you for the book being in better than advertised condition. I will definately be checking the books you offer!

Great gift for the hiker/camper in your family

I bought this for my back packing camper son. He gives it five stars. Since he/wife are now taking their two young children with them, he especially appreciated having a go to resource for medical questions. Practical approach to 'medicine in the field".

A very well written book

This book is written by a Mountain resquer and is so full of information you will want it in youre library for future refrence and continue to read it so you can keep absorbing information out of this book.

Good introduction to wilderness first aid

Medicine for the Backcountry is a great general-purpose guide to wilderness medicine in the U.S. and Canada. For anyone needing to educate themselves on wilderness first aid, or in need of a book to take along on an extended trip, I can highly recommend it. I give it four instead of five stars only because it doesn't cover some of the more esoteric third-world illnesses and treatments.

A hiking and camping necessity.

A recommended take-along tote for any wilderness hiker; as is Buck Tilton and Frank Hubbell's third edition of Medicine For The Backcountry more specific to wilderness first aid treatments. From broken bones to heat and cold injuries, this tells how to make do until civilization is reached.