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| The Way of the Scout | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Brown
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 563871
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 281
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0425147797
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9780425147795
ASIN: 0425147797
Publication Date: June 1, 1995
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Condition: New softcover book.
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Product Description
The author presents twelve stories illustrating the expert skills in tracking taught by the Apaches, showing how the Native American art of survival can bring the spiritual rewards of higher consciousness and inner peace. Reprint.
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 Ridiculous super-ninja wannabe fantasies -- don't waste your money November 12, 2008
This book is fiction, even though it is not listed as such. Boring, unrealistic, childish fiction.
Tom Brown's over-the-top lies get more and more ridiculous with each chapter, as he tries progressively harder with each of his tales, to try to make himself look like some sort of superhero. Anybody who has spent any time out in the woods, and doesn't spend all of their time watching Rambo will immediately see through these childish stories ... Tom Brown is a complete fool: don't make this fake richer by spending your money on his trashy fiction novels.
If you actually want to learn about tracking -- I'd recommend the following books:
"Tracking and The Art of Seeing" by Paul Rezendes
"Mammal Tracks And Sign" by Mark Elbroch
"Tracking: Signs of Man, Signs of Hope" by David Diaz
These are three of the most high quality tracking books you'll find, and you won't feel like you've been scammed after receiving them.
this book should be listed in the FICTION section August 14, 2008
there are many good stories with lots of adventure which makes it interesting to read. unless tom brown can show proof of what he claims in this book, it should be listed in the fiction section. if other people went and and tried to copy cat what tom brown claims to have done, they would get arrested or possibly killed.
Bull! August 13, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I did not read this book. I read The Tracker and was taken off guard by this man's accomplishments. The book lead me to call him my hero for several months. I noticed his cocky attitude and ultimately hard to believe tales of learning and triumph, but blindly ignored it. I am only 19, but I am ashamed that it took me to the fourth chapter of the Journey to realize that Tom Brown is a con man. Grandfather and Rick never existed and the man drives a damn hummer. I am ashamed to have his books in my bookshelf and am considering burning them for some actually wilderness servival use. DO NOT BUY INTO TOM BROWN'S LIES.
 Buy it today! February 20, 2008
This is one of my favorite books. If you grew up crawling in the mud, watching wildlife, love nature and the environment, and would like to read stories about the subject, buy this book!
Words of Wisdom for today's people January 25, 2008
This book is really hilarious like many have said, and is a great read.
I, too, have not been too thrilled at a FEW of the stories in the book, at some of the things he does. However, the people in question obviously didn't care whether or not they polluted the environment, who got hurt by what they did, or what the world will be like for their children in the future.
I read this book and I see the same things happening today. People drop cigarette butts on the ground and don't even bother to put them out. They flick them out of their car into the grass without even the slightest lick of concern for whether or not it will start a forest fire.
Are they to be blamed? Well, no, because as Stalking Wolf says it is not the white man, but the white man's actions that you should hate. (from his book Grandfather)
I think it's obvious that nobody is perfect and Tom's constant bout with his anger is sure proof of that.
I believe it is very wise that the scouts used psychological warfare instead of physical violence because physical violence would only get them killed. Physical violence on both parts led to many indian massacres in the 1800s.
This book shows some of the atrocities that people perform for greed and many of these atrocities are still being performed today. If this continues the world will be uninhabitable. It is very logical, and easy to understand why. To say it isn't so is to deny all logical reasoning.
This book may simply tell stories but it does scratch the surface of many scout ideologies and skills that you can learn about more in his other books, or at his school. It is an extremely entertaining read that will enlighten others to the Way of the Scout. It does not teach how to be a scout, nor do I think it was meant to.
That's like expecting to read a book and become a master of martial arts.
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