Tom Brown, Jr.
Tom Brown, Jr. began his tracking career at age seven, under the tutelage of an elderly Apache scout named Stalking Wolf (whom Brown called Grandfather). Stalking Wolf died when Brown was seventeen. For the next ten years, Brown lived almost exclusively in the wilderness, using very few manufactured tools to survive. He soon became known to law enforcement and government agencies as “The Tracker,” gaining a reputation as a master tracker through his successes in finding criminals and lost children. In 1976, he published his first book, an autobiography called The Tracker. In 1977, he founded Tom Brown’s Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School, which remains the largest and best-known wilderness survival school in the United States. Since starting the school, he and his associate teachers have trained thousands in the art of tracking, and he has written a wide number of articles and books, including a set of field guides.
Books
- The Tracker
- The Search
- The Vision
- The Quest
- The Journey
- Grandfather
- Awakening Spirits
- The Way of the Scout
- The Science and Art of Tracking
- Case Files of the Tracker
- Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking
- Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
- Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Living with the Earth
- Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Wilderness Survival
- Tom Brown’s Field Guide to City and Suburban Survival
- Tom Brown’s Field Guide to the Forgotten Wilderness
