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Summary: Good info if you look closely
Review: This book holds a ton of good wilderness information, but you might have to some searching to find it. This is not the type of book that you can skip around to find the good information. If you read the book throughly and practice what Tom Brown teaches, you can learn a lot more than by just reading and skimming through it.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book is great. It is met to be a teaching guide, get it and do the exercises that are in the book and you will learn a lot. This book is loaded with information, I recommend all his books, get Tom Brown' Field Guide to Nature Observation with this one too.
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Summary: Vast knowledge
Review: This book is one of the most in depth wilderness survival books you will find anywhere. The book give s broad spectram of of survival info. You will learn about shelters, edible plants and herbs, animal snares, and the basics of tracking and camouflage. this book holds alot of information, and no matter how many books I have on survival and tracking, I still relate back to it often.
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Summary: Survival situation?
Review: This book is what it claims to be, i.e., a wilderness survival book. It teaches basic survival techniques such as locating water, building a fire and shelter, and "living off the land." What this book is NOT is a book for nature lovers. Personally, I don't want to know 100 different gruesome ways to trap an animal, or how to build a thatch hut that will last 6 months, or how to make hide clothing accessories...all this in my, possibly, 1-2 day "survival situation"!?! Honestly, how many people get lost in the woods each year? Can't be that many (or for too long). I feel like Tom and his tracker school disciples DON'T WANT to be found, should they get lost. They want as much time as possible to test their perfectly honed survival skills, hopefully getting ample chance to eat leaves, bark, insects and trapped animals, not to mention building grass huts and stuffing their clothes with leaves. His book could have been called "Learn How to Treat the Wilderness as if it Were One Big Supermarket." Or "Nature Jocks." Common sense is a far better survival tool than all the pages in this book: be prepared for the worst if you are going deep into the wilderness (but how many people actually do this) and learn a few basic survival techniques from a Boy Scout Guidebook. Better yet, don't treat Nature as your playground. Just take a walk in the woods, listening, watching, enjoying. Don't stop to identify each plant you could eat, or what animal track you passing over. Just breath in what Mother Nature has to offer. Leave your enormous buck knife and ample cordage at home. The tracker school mentality is more about using nature's woods and dales as a place to roll around in the mud, practice kendo and make silly tools and living shelters. Just take a damn walk. Why complicate things?
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Summary: Survival situation?
Review: This book is what it claims to be, i.e., a wilderness survival book. It teaches basic survival techniques such as locating water, building a fire and shelter, and "living off the land." What this book is NOT is a book for nature lovers. Personally, I don't want to know 100 different gruesome ways to trap an animal, or how to build a thatch hut that will last 6 months, or how to make hide clothing accessories...all this in my, possibly, 1-2 day "survival situation"!?! Honestly, how many people get lost in the woods each year? Can't be that many (or for too long). I feel like Tom and his tracker school disciples DON'T WANT to be found, should they get lost. They want as much time as possible to test their perfectly honed survival skills, hopefully getting ample chance to eat leaves, bark, insects and trapped animals, not to mention building grass huts and stuffing their clothes with leaves. His book could have been called "Learn How to Treat the Wilderness as if it Were One Big Supermarket." Or "Nature Jocks." Common sense is a far better survival tool than all the pages in this book: be prepared for the worst if you are going deep into the wilderness (but how many people actually do this) and learn a few basic survival techniques from a Boy Scout Guidebook. Better yet, don't treat Nature as your playground. Just take a walk in the woods, listening, watching, enjoying. Don't stop to identify each plant you could eat, or what animal track you passing over. Just breath in what Mother Nature has to offer. Leave your enormous buck knife and ample cordage at home. The tracker school mentality is more about using nature's woods and dales as a place to roll around in the mud, practice kendo and make silly tools and living shelters. Just take a damn walk. Why complicate things?
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Summary: Great book
Review: This book showed me enogh to go on a camping hike with only the clothes on my body.Reading this book you will have to realize that the knowledge to know these skills is just half of it. The other half is the state of mind and appreation for nature. I strongly recommend this book to anyone intrested in learning to survive in the wilderness and become part of nature. If you read this book and like it you are sure to find the rest of Tom Browns collection fastinating. After reading this book I strongly recommend you read "NATURE OBSERVATION AND TRACKING".
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Summary: gave me the essentials i would need to survive outdoors
Review: This book teaches you about all that you need to know about outdoor survival. but, a book that was better than this was outdoor survival skills by Larry Dean Olsen. There was much more information in this book and it taught me a lot of more seful things that you could use in the wilderness which i have tested and they work. I would refer this book to the people that go to look at Tom Browns book.
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Summary: this book is a must have for the survivalist
Review: this guide along with others of Tom"s books if studied and then practiced will allow you to become totally independent of civilization as we know it. I attended his basic survival course and can vouch that his techniques work.He refers to his approach as "naked survival' in other words you should strive for the ability to walk into the wilds naked and set yourself up comfortably from totally natural matierials.he believes survival is a pleasure not an ordeal.
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Summary: Don't leave home without it!
Review: This is an great book with tons of useful information. It will explain your priorities if a survival situation and tells you almost everything you will need to survive in any environment. The chapter on edible plants is intended as an overview and even Tom Brown himself recommends supplementing it with other books. This is the first book you'll want to get if you want to learn wilderness survival skills.
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Summary: Excellent survival book
Review: This is and excellent wilderness survival book, get the whole series and his other books and go to his school. This is an excellent book that will teach you if you put the time into it.
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