Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking Book

I checked this book out after being fairly impressed with audio lectures I'd listened to from the Art of Mentoring, the fohbder of which was mentored by Tom Brown Jr.

I was excited to read this book but found myself pretty skeptical right away. I did some googling and the general conclusion seems to be that Tom Brown Jr's abilities are very impressive to all who have witnessed them, but maybe take his anecdotes with a grain of salt. Which is unfortunate. And as should be pretty apparent upon seeing how many books this author has penned on essentially the same subject, there's a lof of filler here. And a lot is redundant and overly wordy. Not to mention pretty silly. Many of the exercises in this book seem like great practice and many just seem like he was trying to come up with as many exercises as possible, no matter how unlkely someone would be to actually try them.

So pretty mixed feelings. There's some really solid stuff here and I'll definitely slowly put some of it to practice. I suspect this is his most practical book, but that's not saying much. I forced myself to finish the book, skimming at times. Cant really recomend this as a good read, but worth skimming, especially to glean a few tips to put into practice next time you're in the woods.