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The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats: A Comprehensive Guide to the Trackable Animals of the United States and Canada | 
 enlarge | Author: Len Mcdougall
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 407761
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 1
ISBN: 1592280706
Dewey Decimal Number: 591.97
EAN: 9781592280704
ASIN: 1592280706
Publication Date: November 1, 2004
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Condition: New Book, Publisher's Overstock, may have remainder mark-few left
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Product Description
The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats is the first comprehensive guidebook for identifying the tracks and scats of all trackable animals of the United States and Canada. With ample use of photographs and line drawings, Len McDougall, an adroit tracker and an experienced teacher of tracking skills, takes the reader step-by-step from basic identification skills to interpretation and understanding of the animal's behavior by means of its tracks and scats. The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats also offers a handy key of track and scat characteristics that enables the reader to quickly verify the source of any markings.
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The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats: A Comprehensive Guide to the Trackable Animals of the United States and Canada April 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was a huge dissapointment. All pictures are either sketches, line drawings or black and white photos. If you want pictures/photos, and want them in color, don't buy this book. The title is very misleading. Got a new book. Turned the first page and the binding cracked.
Save your money March 20, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
McDougal's _Tracks and Scat_ was a major disappointment. One presumes that a work with the word "encyclopedia" in it would live up to its subtitle, "a comprehensive guide to trackable animals in the United States and Canada". It certainly covers plenty of animals, but it's hardly comprehensive. There are very few photos and most of them are of poor quality and difficult to make out. The black-and-white drawings of various species are done in a style that's so amateurish that some of the drawings are laugh-out-loud funny (the bobcat and wolverine are particularly sad). The track drawings are better than the animal drawings, but I would argue that Ian Sheldon's back-pocket guide _Animal Tracks of Washington and Oregon_ (1997 Lone Pine Press) is a much better (and less expensive) reference if one is looking for a straight animal track guide.
Perhaps most annoying is that even though the word scat is in the title, there are only a couple of photos of scat and a couple of crappy drawings. The "comprehensive" descriptions of scat for most species amounts to a couple sentences that do next to nothing to help the tracker differentiate cats from dogs from mustellids. It is in this regard that one feels most egregiously ripped off.
So, don't be fooled. Leave this book on the shelf and let it go quietly out of print....
not what I expected March 11, 2006
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed with the Tracks and Scats Encyclopedia because of the hand drawn tracks. Len boasts "ample use of photographs and line drawings" for identifying tracks. His photographs are of animals, of which I am familiar, and his line drawings are of the scat and tracks; disappointing because it was for authenticity of the scat and tracks that I purchased the book. I wanted actual pictures of tracks and scat, a representation of what I would see in the field, not something I would use in a greeting card or placemat. I would not recommend this book to anyone that has spent more than 2 days out-of-doors. I may actually donate this book to the high school library and buy a Peterson's Guide.
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