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Case Files of the Tracker: True Stories from America's Greatest Outdoors | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Brown
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 276673
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0425187551
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.1479
EAN: 9780425187555
ASIN: 0425187551
Publication Date: December 2003
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Condition: The book is clean but may have highlights.
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Product Description
For decades, Tom Brown, Jr.-the renowned wilderness expert and tracker trained by an Apache elder-has been called upon to find lost children, escaping criminals, wild animals-anything that can walk, crawl, or lope through the wilderness. Now, he talks about sixteen of his most incredible adventures for the first time-including the desperate race to reach a diabetic child before he goes into insulin shock, the treacherous struggle to capture an armed criminal which left Tom with a bullet in his back, and his pursuit of a tiger loose in the wilds of New Jersey.
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 inside a tracking case January 9, 2008
No other book quite catches the thoughts and feelings inside a tracking case for a lost child or on the trail of an aging escaped lion. Sad and compelling, it allows you to feel the fear and anguish of a father searching for a lost child the same age as his own. And it gives insight to the needless killing of an arthritic circus animal too tired to hunt but a fine target for overprotective local law enforcement.
Great man - not as good of a writer... March 25, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As with most Tom Brown books, of which I own all of them, I wish he allowed himself a good editor. For those who have never stumbled across Brown's books before, I think that he can come across as fantastic, made up, or even flat fiction. Essentially, when he is billed as the greatest tracker in North America - no one seems to dispute him on these facts. When you do research on the Survival schools in America - most instructors were taught by him. When you talk to people who have taken his school, I have not, they say that he is the real deal.
With this said, he is a far better tracker than a writer and thus his books often come across as flat. The best story in this book is the story about his search for Jerry A., a little lost 3 year old boy in the Grand Canyon. It breaks your heart and shows you that Tom Brown stories do not all end happily. By the time the Tracker is called in and can get there, every other method has been exhausted. The story makes you weep for the little boy and the sadness that a tracker must see. The passion and sadness in this tale is the book at it's best. If they were all like this I would say 4 of 5 stars would be applicable.
However, the poorer stories, such as the tale about Nails, a man that he had trained previously seems devoid of good description and fact and almost impossible to 'see'. The story would be awesome if just told by a better writer.
When the book 'The Tracker' was written, a better than Brown wrote it and the stories came to life. Unfortunatley, for whatever reason, Brown writes his later books himself, and something is lost. I do not think Brown needs to give up all writing, he just needs a good editor.
 Coyote Teaching at it's best! November 15, 2006
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The best review I can give is to share an open letter to the author, Tom Brown Jr.
Tom Brown,
Thank you for not only sharing these candid and true stories from your life, thank you for sharing them in a way that teaches us how to enter more deeply into the life of the apache scout and the life of the tracker.
Your stories continue to inpsire me to deepen my skills, and to immerse myself into the world of what else is possible.
Your book, Case Files of The Tracker is a great read, that is great for beginner and seasoned tracker alike.
Thank you Tom,
John Wingert
The Original and Only NO BS Life Coach
 Is Brown Insane or Merely a Liar? May 2, 2005
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
If you're going to gloss yourself as "America's Greatest Outdoorsman," you should offer more to your readers than juvenile, New Age adventure stories. This book holds more snickers than the M&M Mars wharehouse.
Do people really take this guy seriously? His prose is leaden at best and his chest-thumbing goes well beyond the realm of satire. Tom Brown's writings are to serious tracking what Spider Man comics are to martial arts. "My spirit sense told me he had been here....Only a person I had trained would be able to do that."
If you're looking for an honest read about tracking, there are scores of better authors out there. If you're looking for risible mumbo jumbo, laughable braggadocio, and a tenth-rate cloak and dagger yarn, then Tom's your guy!
(Seriously, people literally and figuratively buy this excrement?)
Can't he use any more descriptive words? April 14, 2005
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this book yesterday from Barnes and Nobels bookstore. I liked the title and thought, "This might be a good read." I read half of it yesterday. The book was so monotonous. He keeps using the word "Cenntrical ring" and "track" too much. I couldn't get past a page without reading the word track. It became so repetitive that it was chore to continue reading this book. I hated it.
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