Case Files of the Tracker: True Stories from America's Greatest Outdoorsman

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There is no greater tracker in America than Tom Brown. His intimate knowledge of the natural environment, by sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, has made him renowned as a detective of the outdoors. For decades he has been called upon to find missing children, escaped animals, dangerous criminals-anything that can walk, crawl, or lope through the wilderness. His hunting expertise, and his call to find harmony in nature, have been chronicled in several of his books including The Tracker and Awakening Spirits.Now, in Case Files of the Tracker, Tom Brown reveals sixteen of his adventures for the first time, including- A desperate race to reach a diabetic child before he suffers from insulin shock The treacherous struggle to capture an armed convict that left Tom with a bullet in his back His Tracking Team's pursuit of a tiger on the loose in the wilds of New Jersey

Tom Brown, Jr. began to learn hunting and tracking at the age of eight under the tutelage of an Apache elder, medicine man, and scout in Toms River, New Jersey, and is the author of 16 books on nature. He was the technical advisor on The Hunted, a major motion picture starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benecio Del Toro. In 1978, Tom founded the Tracker School in the New Jersey Pine Barrens where he offers more than 25 classes about wilderness survival and environmental protection.