Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature and Survival for Children

by Tom Brown

Overview

Here is the perfect guide to exploring the wonders of nature with children—safely. Whether your outdoor experience includes day trips 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 teachers, parents, counselors and children, it can make every trip to a park or forest a safe and educational wilderness adventure.

* Observing and identifying animals and plants
* Lost-proofing children
* Stalking and tracking
* Finding water and food in nature
* Safety and first aid
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425111062
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/28/1989
Series:	Field Guide Series , #7
Edition description:	Berkley trade pbk. ed
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	269,916
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tom Brown, Jr. began to learn hunting and tracking at the age of eight under the tutelage of an Apache elder, medicine man, and scout in Toms River, New Jersey, and is the author of 16 books on nature. Recently, he was the technical advisor on The Hunted, a major motion picture starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benecio Del Toro.   In 1978, Tom founded the Tracker School in the New Jersey Pine Barrens where he offers more than 25 classes about wilderness survival and environmental protection.

Editorial Reviews

Prolific author, operator of a popular wilderness survival school (in New Jersey's Pine Barrens), ``The Tracker'' Brown believes that society and school have dulled our sense of the interconnectedness in all nature. His ``field guide'' stresses awareness, tracking, survival, and a philosophy derived from an Apache elder, and he hopes parents will teach their children these values and skills. The first half of this seventh in a series discusses careful observing in nature; the second, aimed at children aged 4-11, presents survival skills for shelter, water, fire, and food. There are specific suggestions for games to teach these concepts, but the bulk of the text urges teachers (parents) to value the nature ethic. For public libraries, city or country.-- Roland Person, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale Lib.

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