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Summary: This book will change your life, and for the better!
Review: This wonderful book, which teaches you to live in harmony with the earth, and not in a struggle with it, is packed full with invaluable information. This book has taught me to survive without the aid of any commercialy avaiable products. Once you read this book you will feel at home in any wilderness setting.
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Summary: Good stories, meager knowledge
Review: Tom Brown is a charismatic, inspiring story teller...one of the best. But if you are interested in learning these skills, you'd be much better off with McPherson's "Naked into the Wilderness" or "Bushcraft" by Mors Kochanski or Larry Dean Olsen's "Outdoor Survival Skills". For hide tanning (brain tanning) check out "Deerskins into Buckskins" by Matt Richards, tracking try "Mammal Tracking in North America" by James Halfpenny. Just about any edible plant guide will out do this book.Tom has inspired more people's interest in wilderness living/survival, and for that he deserves kudos. His most inspirational reading is "The Tracker". Get it and it will change your life. But if you want to actually learn the skills, you're better off elsewhere.
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Summary: This book, to say it in simple terms:is absolutely amazing!
Review: Tom Brown Jr.'s knowledge and perfection in regards to nature and survival skills/philosophy, I feel, is truely amazing. The fact that he has lived for many years, putting these skills to the test, makes him a great teacher(a master) in this regards. His words and teachings are of truth and this book, as well as all of the other books he has written, is to say it in simple terms: "AMAZING!"
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Summary: informative but above average.
Review: Tom brown's field guide is very informative piece of over 250 pages and it makes a good reading but I doubt I could go out in the wilderness and build an effective trap even if I studied the whole thing over and over. Here's the problem, all the stuff is practical but are you going to identify all the plants out in the field or remember how to build shelter just after seeing sketches in this book? NO. This guide lacks real life color photos, that's what you need to be able to recognize stuff out there like different kinds of wood and plants that are crucial to survival. Please don't be misled by people who tell you this book is all you need, Those kind words might get you killed. For a more vital source of outdoor survival I suggest looking somewhere else.
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