Buck Books

A Most Amazing Young Man

Shane Comes Home is a book about a most amazing young man, Marine Lt. Therrel Shane Childers by Rinker Buck. I purchased the book because his family comes from Cabell County, West Virginia, the place I live and worked as a deputy sheriff. I do not know the family but I patrolled the area they came from, Salt Rock, WV. I knew the roads well, Smith Creek, Madison Creek, the "Dog Fork" of Madison Creek, Hickory Ridge, and WV State Rt. 10. I thought I would read a little about the area I knew so well and maybe the mention of some of the people I know, but I was in for a pleasant surprise. Rinker Buck does an excellent job of telling the story of the first American to loose his life in combat in the Iraq War. The story of this amazing Marine is so well told I couldn't put the book down. There is little about the war, it is about the unpleasant job of notifying the parents of a fallen hero. It is about a young boy growing into a man who was loved by everyone he met. I am only sorry I never had the pleasure of meeting Shane, but after reading the book I feel like I have known him all his short life. Anyone who is fortunate enough to read this book is in for a real treat.

Fred E. Moskey, Retired Cabell County Deputy Sheriff.
moskey25@comcast.net

I didn't think I wanted to read this book at first, but am glad I purchased it and read it. Another reviewer said that it was about the man, the military and his family and this is very true.The book goes into all of Shane Childers life from childhood to his final moments interspersed with the details and goings-on of the preparation for the funeral. That was the letdown in the book for me. After all the talk about the ceremony, etc., the funeral services itself was only described in like 2 paragraphs. I thought for sure every detail of the funeral service and committal would have been mentioned. But it seems as if every biography I read goes right up to the death of the individual and then one paragraph or so about the funeral. Writers don't seem to think the readers care about hearing about the ceremonies and burials, but I for one do. This was a real personal account of one man's life and I was glad to get this close to an actual situation. It does bother me SO much though that the author NEVER capitalizes Marine, Marine Corps, etc. I don't know proper grammar perhaps but I think that a Marine is a title and the Marine Corps is an organization and should be capitalized, even if in proper grammar it shouldn't. Make sense?? A soldier is a soldier, a sailor is a sailor---but a Marine is a MARINE. Very good reading!!

Shane Comes Home captures the eccense of a life well lived. It is a an accurate account of growing up in a country where not everybody is supportive of our war effort, yet avoids any partisan bias towards the war. It is extremely well-written with a touch of humor and irony, and an easy read. Though throughout the book the author makes a few references about Shane leaning a little to the Right, that is not unexpected from an educated military man. If there is ever a soldier, or a person for that matter, I would like to emulate it would be Shane Childers. He is an almost super-hero character, constantly on the move saving people from harm, all the while trying to find out who he really is. This book is for anybody who enjoys a good story, not just for soldiers or military folks. I highly enjoyed it and recommend it for its pro-American stance, regardless of your politics.

Living in San Clemente, CA, I remember the local reports of Shane's death. He lived in SC when he deployed to Iraq. When I learned he was a Citadel grad (I'm from VMI) during one of Rinker's radio interviews, I had to buy this book and did by the end of that day. That said, I was very leery of how a New England columnist would present a topic as dividing as the Iraq War has been.

I was not disappointed. Rinker left the divisive politics aside and focused on the man, family and Corps behind the hero. He provided and incredible story of a true American hero. No doubt, Shane is a hero.

This work certainly could have been be written about many more of the countless heroes in this day. Rinker provides a first hand insight how the families of our heroes deal with their greatest loss. This is a must read.

Having known Shane personally I am amazed and greatful of the rare talent the author, Rinker Buck possess.
He has managed to capture the man that Shane was without actually ever knowing him personally and be able to tell the story of a brilliant, intelligent dedicated Marine.
I am certain that those who read this book will come to appreciate the man, the marine, the hero that Shane was.
If anyone deserved to be remembered and honored this way, it was definetly Shane!

If you want to learn or review IP Addressing I can think of no better book on the market-highly recommended! While all of this information is available elsewhere in piecemeal fashion, this book puts it all together, including critical design issues, all with very clear, practical examples based on the author's extensive experience. If your work calls for a solid understanding of the intracacies of IP Addressing, implementation, this book is for you.

The book provides confidence and integrity in an enlightening array of subjective entries. The author leads an impressive set of credentials to the reader with first person comfort. The format allows entry-level students of the subject matter enough leeway to follow a suggested path to better design of networks by first considering the 'Addressing' issues.

This is a must read for anyone putting together an IP network

The author positions the book as a IP numbering system for enterprize networks and it is not. Graham spends half of the book explaining what an IP datagram is and what it is used for and the other half of the book is very basic IP numbering theory. Basically if your in charge of the ip numbering of an "Enterprize Network" and anything in this book is new to you then your in over your head.

I highly recommend this book if you work in I.S., support servers or database systems, and want to know about TCP/IP subnetworking.

My situation three years ago:

I was an OpenVMS M/SQL systems manager put in an awkward position of constantly having my projects delayed and aborted because the network engineers I worked with did not understand IP well enough to support my organizations' network. It was a Friday, and I was working on an important project that needed to be done by Monday. The network engineers had completely let me down -- they boggled a router configuration and addressesing scheme and blamed it on the me and the phone company! I went to the local bookstore, picked this book up, and (with this book) I was able to fumble my way through a the design of a small subnetwork and router configuration by Monday. Within a few months, I took over their responsibilities.

Since then, I've become CCNA-certified, a full-fledged network engineer, and have seen incredible career-growth. None of this would have been possible if not for this most excellent introductory book. It was very easy to read, even for a subnetworking-ignorant fool (at the time) like myself.

To enjoy this book, you have to put yourself in the mindset of the pulp stories of the thirties. It was a time of great economic struggle; American phobias and fears regarding other races were intense. The greatest fear was against the "Asiatic hordes", which was a common theme among escapist stories of the time and the Buck Rogers stories were no exception.
The premise of the story is that Buck Rogers, an American veteran of the First World War, enters a mysterious cavern and is put into hibernation by a mysterious gas present there. He awakens in 2419 to find an Asiatic race called the Hans in control of North America. The Hans have built great cities, forcing the few surviving Americans into the forests. In keeping with the racial prejudice of the 1930's the Hans are depicted as soulless, completely lacking in morals and ruthless killers of even their own race when deemed necessary.
Of course, Rogers becomes the leader of the American gangs and defeats the Han forces, who commit mass suicide rather than surrender. In true pulp fashion, Nowlan invents new elements when needed and explains them with simplistic, unscientific and incomplete descriptions. If you are capable of putting yourself into the proper mental state, it is possible to read and enjoy this book. However, if you keep your disbelief meter at too high a level, it will be a dull read.

This is one of those books I read many years ago (the ACE paperback edition with both this book and The Airlords of Han printed together) and introduced me to sci-fi classics but also the wonderful world of Buck Roger comic strips. This is a book every sci-fi fan should read at least once. It is something "modern" writers should take note that many of Nowlan's predictions came true; many yet to come. He created science out of nothing and hit the target many times. I bought this and The Airlords of Han for my new Kindle because I thought a "Buck Rogers device" needed to have Buck Rogers on it.

Anthony Rogers enters suspended animation in 1927 and wakes up in 2419.

He soon finds himself surrounded by some pretty cool technology, and in a military conflict. His military skills are still transferable to the present day, so he becomes an important player in the fight against the Han, especially with Wilma Deering by his side.

this book is a combination of the two original buck rogers stories together as one. these stories lead to the orignial comic strip. it tells how world war one veteran anthony rogers after investigating an incident at a remote mine wakes up five hundred years in the future. to an occupied america ruled by the air lords of the han with there gleaming cities and giant air ships suspended on beams of force. they supress the remants of the american population who live by stealh in the forests with there hidden factories and their plans to liberated thier homeland from the han invaders. into this mess in dumped buck rogers with his knowledge of combat and tactics long forgotten and with his help the han's days are numbered.

After someone leaves envelopes containing $100,000 each in several small towns across America, Boston Police Inspector and Secret Agent Francis Xavier Flynn is called in to investigate.

After finishing reading MacDonald's "Fletch" series of books, I decided to give the "Flynn" books a try, but the simple fact is that the "Flynn" books just aren't as good as the "Fletch" books. "The Buck Passes Flynn" is the second Flynn book, and not only is there no murder for Flynn to solve (yes, I am aware that it is possible to have a mystery story without a murder, but they're generally not as interesting), but the whole novel is essentially just a vehicle for MacDonald to voice his opinions on the evils of money. The story is slow-moving, far-fetched and totally hypocritical. The message of this book seems to be that money only brings misery, and yet MacDonald seems to overlook the fact that Flynn himself is very rich (this fact is mentioned in the first Flynn novel and in "Confess, Fletch", but is conveniently omitted in this book) and I'm sure MacDonald isn't a charity case either. I own copies of the other two "Flynn" novels, so I will probably keep reading them, but after this book and "Flynn", I am beginning to have my doubts as to whether I will actually enjoy them.

Have you read a Fletch book? Flynn is, in some ways, Fletch's flipside - he is a perfect gentleman, a devoted family man even, who works for the forces of law and order - but if free spirit Fletch lives in fun stories that might give you some pause for thought, reliable Reluctant Flynn lives in hilarious stories that might later keep you up nights in deep contemplation.

McDonald is a damn good storyteller, running his clever characters through a series of plausible situations with snowballing root causes that give broad opportunity for adventure and the display of wry wit. Flynn and Fletch are his vehicles for some of the best dialogue I've seen in print.

This is one of my favorite McDonald books. My biggest problem with the work is that I keep giving copies away to friends and having to purchase more.

Thought-provoking idea, well-written in McDonald's excellent style... witty, inventive. I love the Flynn series! More, more, please!

McDonald's hero "Flynn" is not as popular as his "Fletch" series, but "The Buck Passes Flynn" is the best of the series and every bit as good as a Fetch novel. The theme, that someone is making random $100,000 deposits on the doorsteps of every home in small communities around the country and creating havoc in the process, is quite fascinating (though admittedly dated, it would probably be about $250,000 today). It is a mystery worthy of the great Inspector Flynn, and is told in a humorous style for which McDonald is known. Overall, a great book for fans of detective fiction.

Harry Truman famously said, "The buck stops here" to punctuate the fact that as President of the USA, he is in charge. The title of this book then refers to the fact that in the American health care system, the buck stops nowhere because no one is really in charge. The book itself is a condensed primer on the shortfalls, inefficiencies, and immoralities of the US health care system as it exists in the beginning of the 21st century. The book examines health care plans, insurance coverage, and the medicare / medicaid problems. From such a large set of problems, the author draws out several major trends seen by all involved in the health care system, and proposes several things that we, the voters can do to help the system.

There are several drawbacks to this book. First, the book focuses on the health care system in general, and mostly neglects the social and cultural environment that has come to exist in America from 1945 to the present. Specifically, America has become a car society, such that the primary form of exercise practised in other countries - walking between work, school, store, and home - is rarely practiced in American any more. As America becomes more and more suburbanized, people will drive more and walk less. This can only lead to more obesity, and all the other problems related to it.

Second, the author should have devoted a whole chapter to the food, alcohol and tobacco industry. Major parts of the US economy gain their profit by Americans doing unhealthy things such as eating junk food, smoking, drinking alcohol, etc... As long as these industries have lobbyists working for them in D.C. and state capitols, there is only so much preventive health care that can occur in this country.

Third, and most importantly, the author should have examined the way health care professionals (doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, opticians, etc...) are trained and certified / licensed in America, and compare / contrast this with what happens in other countries. Specifically, health care professionals in the US form the highest-paid union, and entry into this union is quite expensive. On the other hand, health care professionals in most other societies are not compensated so handsomely as those in the US, and getting an education in health care is quite different in other countries as compared to here. For example, one can get a B.S. degree in Medicine in China, and go on to practice medicine. This is not possible in the USA.

Overall a good book, and one that packs quite a punch for its short length. But there are topics it misses entirely.

I have been in healthcare for over twenty years. I have always been perplexed by the lack of vision with our healthcare system. Ms. O'Connor has clearly identified the critical issues that influence our misaligned health system.
On page 39 Ms O'Connor points out that we are #1 per capita healthcare expense however our country is #37 internationally in overall health outcomes. This alone should alarm the average American to call their U.S. Representative today and ask the question why?
I applaud Ms. O'Connor for articulating the difficult issues.
Ms. O'Connor uses a pithy style to explain the real issues that shape the U.S. health system. This book is a must read for all who want to gain insight into the problems that effect the health of the citizens of this great country.

"Kathleen O'Connor's book "The Buck Stops Nowhere" is a pithy, down to earth primer for anyone who cares about reforming our healthcare "system" and has trouble seeing the various parts of the elephant, like the proverbial blind wise men. She cuts through mountains of material to make some large generalizations that ring true to this family practitioner of over twenty years. She ends with a plea for public engagement in a democratic process that is the only new idea going for basic reform of the world's 37th best performing and most expensive healthcare system: ours!"

I finished this book in an evening; I couldn't put it down. The author has succinctly outlined our present healthcare system and how we got here. More importantly, she explains why it doesn't work and some ideas on how to design a system which will work. The book is written for the layperson, but as a healthcare professional, I found this book to be a real eye-opener.

This was an interesting biography about a pilot turned pastor. It was a bit choppy to read, but the sentiment was nice.

Two weeks ago, Frank and Barbara Barker spoke at our Mid-Winter Conference. They love the Lord and His people, and they also love those people who are seeking God's guidance in their day-to-day lives.

Flight Path contains actual events that God has used to guide Frank all of his life - even when he resisted! I recommend this book, because it is direct and honest - just as Frank and Barbara are. Thank you, Janie and Mary Lou, for writing it.

A biography is an account of a person's life written by another person. An autobiography is an account of a person's life written by that person. We would assume that a biography would be written in the third-person and an autobiography would be written in the first-person. Through reading hundreds of books, that has been my experience. Or it has been until I read Flight Path, A Biography of Frank Barker Jr.. A biography of Frank Barker written by Janie Buck and Mary Lou Davis, it is written in the first person. In the final chapter the authors explain this innovation: "Writing the life story of Frank Barker has been a process of 'slash and burn.' So much material that could, and probably should, be included was left out. There is no way to record all the great things God has done in and through him. Therefore, I have written about the man and not his voluminous accomplishments. After two years of collecting information and praying, God led me to write as if Frank was telling his own story."

I had never heard of Frank Barker until I read this book. Yet it seems that I probably should have heard of him. Barker founded Briarwood Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Birmingham, Alabama--a megachurch long before America was littered with hundreds of them. It must surely still be one of the few Presbyterian megachurches. As surprising as it is that, what is more surprising is that a man like Frank Barker would be the one to begin and nurture such a church. Born into a believing home, Barker fled from the Lord. He lived hard during his teenage years and eventually joined the Navy, becoming a fighter pilot. He continued his hard living until he was radically saved by the Lord and felt called to the ministry.

In the summer of 1960, Frank Barker agreed to help the Birmingham Presbytery start a church in Cahaba Heights. Just a couple of months later, Briarwood Presbyterian Church was officially chartered. Barker led the church for four decades before retiring near the close of 1999. Flight Path is Barker's story, beginning with his childhood and ending with his post-"retirement" career as a speaker and leader.

John MacArthur says of this book: "The story of Frank Barker is an amazing account of how God uses the faithful and the humble. In a marvelous way Christ sought him, saved him, and made him an effective instrument for the building up of the church. What a remarkable and encouraging legacy!" I was struck as well by the way Christ sought Barker, how He saved him, and how God raised him up to begin such a great work. So often it seems that God chooses the most unlikely people to do great things for Him, whether it be in choosing Moses, who was terrified of public speaking, to be His mouthpiece; choosing Paul, who persecuted the church, to be the one who would relay the theology of the New Testament; or Frank Barker, a man who lived for his own pleasure and satisfaction, to be the man who built a church that God used to save so many.

An interesting book that tells a fascinating life-story, Flight Path was an enjoyable read and one I am glad to recommend.

If you can get a copy of this book to read, do it! It's one of the best biographies I've read in a while. It's succinct and densely loaded with good and encouraging stuff about how Frank finally understood salvation is a gift (Rom. 6:23), how he remained faithful to God's Word, and how God has and is using him even though he's made mistakes and remains a sinner. Is a testimony to God's faithfulness to build the church.

handy relevé on the subject which allows us to understand the ancient greek language much deeply, the book is infested with too many typos which are annoying for supposed readers who normally encounters cited dialectal words for the first time in this book. the book has a table of errata which, as my impression goes, would correct only half of the errors, and itself has some typos... this important flaw rips one star, unfortunately.
i recommend to associate to this book the «Morphologie historique du grec» (isbn 2252033975) by P. Chantraine. this book explains the attic&homeric morphology with method of comparative linguistics, citing forms from indoeuropean languages but also from dialectal greeks including the mycenean.

Carl D. Buck's THE GREEK DIALECTS: Grammar, Selected Inscriptions, Glossary is the standard handbook for understanding the world outside of Attic and is an essential resource for the classicist or Indo-Europeanist.

The grammar is divided into phonology, inflection, word-formation and syntax. In the phonology section, Buck simply lists each Proto-Greek phoneme and how it varies in each dialect. In the section on inflection, he sketches the ramifications of phonological differences in noun declension and verb conjugation. Ditto for the section on word formation. "Syntax" for Buck mainly means differences in the uses of the cases and verb moods. What is most helpful about the grammar is that he lists the peculiarities of each dialect. This enables Greek students trained in Attic to know what to expect before they approach a work in Ionic, such as Herodotus. The second part of that work, dealing with inscriptions, shows what evidence we have for each of the Greek dialects.

The real drawback to Buck's work is its age. Last revised in 1955, it predates the understanding of Mycenaean data gained by the deciphering of Linear B, which somewhat importantly changes our view of the dialects. He also wrote before widespread acceptance of laryngeal theory, which complicates the issue of differing prothetic vowels. Nonetheless, in spite of its age, THE GREEK DIALECTS is a book worth making use of. Now, if only some modern scholar could make the necessary updates...

This book, originally called Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects, is the simplest and best book for getting into the subject. All the others, if you can find them, are large, complex, and almost always in German (or worse--Latin!). Buck (author also of the superb Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principle Indo-European Languages, q.v.) writes in a pleasant and easy-going English all throughout. (Because he kicks it old-school...)

The book however, even though it's the fullest and most accessible one in English, is rather hard to get in the United States; but there's an exact reprint by Bristol Classical Press (ISBN 185399556-8) and you can get it quickly "dispatched" (id est, "sent") to you from amazon.co.uk. The price is fair and the overseas Royal Mail is way worth getting your hands on this very important book (which I started reading as soon as I opened it).

There are two parts to it: "Grammar of the Dialects" (Phonology, Inflections, Word-Formation, Syntax, Summaries, and Survivals; 180pp) and "Selected Inscriptions" (by region, 120pp). There're also some appendices, including a nice little glossary.

For modern Greek dialects--which are honestly much more interesting--the standard and best introductory work is N. G. Kontosopoulos (also spelled Kondosopoulos), Dialektoi kai Idiomata tis Neas Ellinikis (Dialects and Idioms of Modern Greek, 1981--ISBN 960-333-257-7), though you may have to go to Athens to get it.

Albert Thumb though, who wrote the Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte (on ancient Greek) also wrote a Handbuch der neugriechischen Volkssprache, which is excellent (though NOT for begining language-learners) and has been translated into English as Handbook of the Modern Greek Language (Library of Congress Catalogue Number 64-23434). After a Smyth-like (but not nearly so boring) description of grammar, there are a hundred pages of "folk" and "artistic" texts, with thirty pages in dialect (incl. Pontic, Magna Graecian, Cypriot, and even some Tsaconian) and a glossary.

For the ancient stuff though, go with Buck; you'll love it.
I hope this helps. Best of luck!

In the greatest era of ancient Greek literature, the 5th century BC and prior, the Greek-speaking community was not large nor even particularly extensive. Greece itself is a smallish country, and even when we have added the Greek settlements in Asia Minor, Sicily, Cyprus and the nearer islands we have not exactly built up a vast population. Yet this one language in that period was spoken in something like 50 clearly distinct dialects. It was only after the Macedonian empire was established that Attic, the dialect of Athens, became dominant in popular speech as it had long been in literary idiom and Greek finally became almost as unified as Latin had been from the start and so remained through the long centuries of Rome's expansion and dominion.

Buck's clear and methodical categorisation of the dialects came too early to benefit from the decipherment of the Linear B tablets. The discovery of a dialect so ancient naturally affects how we trace the lineage of the later dialects. However the impact of this discovery is not as drastic as we are sometimes led to think, and it has plenty of parallels in classical scholarship. Back in the 19th century Baehrens redrew the hierarchy of the MSS of Catullus. More recently Enoch Powell's The Evolution of the Gospel upset the adherents of the usual view of the sequence of their authorship, a view more dependent on divine revelation than on scientific textual criticism, and the consequences of that are far more subversive of our culture than anything Linear B can do. How Buck groups and categorises the dialects will long continue to be subject to later analysis. What does not go away is his patient and methodical exposition of two things - in what ways they differ and what the linguistic processes are behind this differentiation.

For the serious modern student of ancient Greek I should say that Buck needs to be introduced earlier into the process than was done in my time. So long as you stick with Attic, you can treat Greek as a matter of declensions and conjugations the way we do with Latin. The next step in my time was Homer, which seemed like a different language, and we were `taught' a good number of things that were plain nonsense but nonsense the examiners had also been taught, and especially things we had to remember by rote with no idea of how they came to mean what we were told they meant. Zigzag back from there to Herodotus, whose Ionic dialect is actually the nearest to Attic, and the memory-strain was becoming excessive without a proper concept of how and why such-and-such a formation came to signify what it signified. Add in then the lyric poets and we were finding that exactly the same word might be a future indicative in Attic but an aorist subjunctive in the Aeolic dialects and there was a real need for a road-map, but nobody was providing that unless one picked Comparative Philology as a special subject.

There is no real point in blundering through without a theoretical basis for it all, because that involves straining the memory and dulling the intellect. No doubt Buck has been superseded in all manner of ways, but if you are serious about getting to grips with the wonderful Greek language this book needs to be by your hand at quite an early stage. Any initial difficulty it may give you is repaid a thousandfold as you gain the unique thrill of confidence that comes from the understanding of ancient Greek.

I found this book to be average at best. I have alot of books on Whitetail hunting this one is pretty Vanilla. Nothing here that isn't in 20 other books.Lots of ranches and guides.

Hunting mature bucks is a book you can not put down. Mr. Whitetail tells it like it is. A must read for every hunter.

I checked this book out from the library...couldn't put it down! Then I bought it for my own library. The author is very easy to read...in fact, it was as if he was talking to me personally. I learned so much! How to select a guided hunt, reading deer sign and what it means,....the best thing I learned was that the area I hunt has mature bucks! I recommend this book for anyone who hunts deer

IT was a very informative book. A good one for people just starting out. I'd recomend it to any one who loves this sport.

This is a different kind of book, an historical collection of mementos. Nice coffeetable book.

This is a wonderful book filled with aviation history. My favorite part of the book is the added "historical documents" found throught the pages. I can't wait to take this book into classrooms and read to the students!

This volume is one of the neatest books I've ever held, and one of the most fun to look through. Don't crack it open until you have an hour or so to explore and discover its contents. It's like walking through (and HANDELING) history! Great job, Rinker-- as cool as your other great book, Flight of Passage.

This is a magical mini museum of flight. Although it's one dollar a page for yet another flying history book, it's worth the money if you've got a nice coffee table. You get solid writing, beautiful pictures and production values, plus another dimension -- copies of classic documents. Tucked into clever holders there is a replica of John Gillespie Magee's letter home with the poem 'High Flight,' or a working WWII warplane identification wheel. Behind foldouts there are letters Wilbur Wright wrote to the Smithsonian asking for information on flying machines. A copy of Jeppesen's first notebook, Chuck Yeager's test-pilot report on breaking the sound barrier, and several other imitation artifacts. Things I would buy for real if I had 100 million dollars!

Although all too short, this book brings you closer to the historic events than most others. If you want details, buy a big history book. If you want beauty, buy this one.

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.

The authors are EMT's and have had wilderness experience. The book is similar to a number of other books on basic wilderness first aid but is lacking in at least a couple of areas. Various ways of making an improvised stretcher (litter) were not covered. Getting help and communicating with SAR is not covered. What is covered is all patient assessment and standard first aid as is protocol for EMT's. I was disappointed there wasn't more application to wilderness situations. "Medicine for the Outdoors" by Paul s. Auerbach is far more complete and deals better with the harsh realities you face with medical issues in the wilderness. I gave it 3 stars instead of 2 because it might be a starting place for someone with little experience in first aid. I would also like to see these types of books talk about prevention, at very least as an introduction to the topic.

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 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.