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| Designed for both beginners and experienced explorers this guide is fully illustrated and comprehensive. It includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and new ways to rediscover the earth around us. Today most Americans live in the city or suburbs, a safe, comfortable life, at least on the surface. Few of us realize how close we are to the elemental struggle for survival, until disaster strikes. Yet it is possible to be prepared. | Item#: 9780425091722 | | A truly amazing book about the wilderness in backyards, abandoned lots, and hedgerows, yet one of Tom Brown's lesser known field guides. Filled with animal descriptions and anecdotes from his own learning experiences, keep your eyes peeled for tidbits on how millipedes can help you to trail deer, ants can help you learn to track animals across bare rock, and how a common garden spider and a mockingbird teach a young Tom Brown about friendship, jealousy, and companionship with wild beings. | Item#: 9780425097151 | | With this book, Tom Brown expands on basic wilderness survival by sharing the philosophy and skills needed to establish a more enduring relationship to the natural world, through the full turning of the seasons. Like all of the author's books, it contains a unique and enlightening perspective expressed in the nitty gritty of wilderness skills | Item#: 9780425091470 | | Here is the perfect guide to exploring the wonders of nature with children safely. Whether your outdoor experience includes day tripes to local parks or long wilderness treks, Tom Brown, Jr., can help children and adults fully appreciate the boundless beauty of our most precious natural resources. The ideal handbook for parents, teachers, counselors, and children, it can make every trip to a park or forest a safe and educational wilderness adventure. It includes: Observing and identifying animals and plants; Lost-proofing children; Stalking and tracking; Finding water and food in nature; Safety and first aid. | Item#: 9780425111062 | | The best introduction to the skills of nature observation, invisible movement and tracking used by Native Americans since time immemorial. | Item#: 9780425099667 | | Tom Brown reveals fun and fascinating ways to utilize the uncommon benefits of common trees, shrubs, flowers, and other plants. It includes: How to use every part of the plant--leaves, flowers, bark, bulbs, and roots; Where to find useful plants and the best times of year and stages of growth to harvest them; How to prepare delicious food dishes, soups, breads, and teas from the riches of the great outdoors | Item#: 9780425100639 | | An excellent overview of basic wilderness survival skills and attitudes, written from the perspective of the earth as Mother and provider, not as a battle against nature. Includes information on shelter building, obtaining and purifying water, making friction fire, and edible plants and animals, along with a crafts and tool-making section. If you've read and enjoyed Tom Brown before, this book is a clear candidate for your wilderness library. | Item#: 9780425105726 |
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