The Tracker

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Summary: A story that is timeless and life-changing.
Review: I first read this book in the late 1970s and it changed my life. This book encouraged me in an already fanatical interest in tracking, which has since become a lifelong pursuit. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about nature and how to understand the intricacies of the natural world. Through intriguing stories of his own early life, Tom brings alive for the reader the lessons he learned in nature and awakens an interest in all things natural. If you want to read a book that will cause you to change the way you look at the world, that will awaken interests and feelings of wonder at the environment around you, then this is the book for you. Be prepared for a "wild" ride. (Pun intended.)

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Summary: traker
Review: In Traker by Gary Paulsen there were many interesting points.
The story Tracker is about john's grandfather hunting
for deers. John's grandfather is sick. Now John has to do all
the work.He even to go hunting.I would recmend this book to
anyone who loves their families.

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Summary: A Book for boys (or girls) who hate books, but love hunting
Review: There are a few books that I have encountered in my years - books that have not only changed me for their reading them, but changed the very way that I look at the world. The Tracker, by Tom Brown is one of these.

The Tracker chronicles the boyhood and amazing exploits in early life of Tom Brown-outdoorsman, conservationist, environmental activist and 'tracker' in the tradition of Apache Scouts of the American southwest. A tradition and way of life taught to him by his friend and adopted Apache Grandfather Stalking Wolf.

From their first meeting when Tom was seven years old a relationship and mentoring grew and forever altered an Irish-American boy growing up in the Pine Barrens area of southeast New Jersey. Tom gains training that will forever alter the way he looks at and relates to the world both physically and spiritually.

Tom Brown was always a bit different in his boyhood interests. While other New Jersey boys in the 1960s were eager to bicycle to vacant lots for baseball or touch football - Tom would lie on his stomach in his backyard for hours watching the coming and going of insects, or closely study the natural wonder locked in a wildflower's structure. His collection of animal skulls and other natural curios brought to 'show and tell' shocked his school teachers.

He felt alone and misunderstood completely until a chance meeting with Rick, a boy with similar interests that would make him Tom's best friend, cohort, and blood brother for life. Even more fantastic would be the relationship Tom would discover with Rick's 80-some year old Apache Grandfather Stalking Wolf. Grandfather, as both boys called him, would become their "coyote teacher" in the ways of the woods, the ways of the Scout-becoming one with the woods and even greater, the mystery of "the spirit that moves in all things".

From wild dog encounters, to playing in the midst of Army war games, the adventures these two boys encounter in their journey defies belief. Incredible true adventures from stalking and touching wild deer to boldly defending the New Jersey wilderness from those who would abuse her beauty. To tell more would rob you of the great thrill of reading this first book by Tom Brown. An excellent choice for anyone to read, especially, ESPECIALLY young adults.

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Summary: An captivating yet philosophical, spiritual book
Review: This is a well written story about a young boy and his friend Rick who are trained by Rick's indian grandfather to live in harmony with nature. Although the story is captivating, it teaches the ways of nature. I have read it 4 time in the last several years, given copies to my friends as gifts, and am now reading it to my boys. This book teaches respect and honor for all forms of life, disciplined study, and the principles of living in harmony with the Earth. The story is excellent and the book difficult to put down once started.

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Summary: The Greatest Environmentalist Bar None
Review: Tom Brown, Jr. is the greatest outdoorsman, environmentalist, and nature writer of all time. He easily eclipses the likes of Emerson, Burroughs, and Muir leaving them hopelessly in the dust. Tom did not just explore, travel through, or 'camp' in the woods. He actually lived there - for years and years on-end. No one has his insight into life, nature, and man's relationship to both. Unfortunately, there is no single book that sums up all the learning, philosophy, and skills Brown has to teach. How could there be? What Brown knows could fill an encyclopedia! The Tracker, Brown's first book, is the starting point. You will do yourself a disservice, however, if you stop here. Hopefully you will find, like so many others, that you just have to read all of Brown's other books. If so, consider yourself lucky. I had to wait for years as each book was released. You can get them right away. Best wishes!