The Search [Paperback]

Tom Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 1986

Continuing the story begun in his bestselling book The Tracker, Brown offers another tale of wilderness survival, based on the year he spent in the woods with only a knife and his famous survival skills. "His story is fascinating".--Roger Tory Peterson.

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About the Author

Tom Brown, Jr. began to learn tracking and hunting at the age of eight. He has founded a renowned survival school and is the author of bestselling wilderness guides bearing his name. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (December 15, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425102513
• ISBN-13: 978-0425102510
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,141,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An astonishing book with incredible depth of spirit., August 20, 2005

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Frank Bierbrauer (Cardiff, Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Search (Paperback)

I had recently read "The Tracker" by Tom Brown Jr. and thought it a remarkable book. It was the shear enthusiasm and telling of the truth that made it so inspirational. It was a kind of retelling of the innocence of his boyhood. He had been extremely lucky in being taught by Stalking Wolf, the Apache shaman, and grandfather of his best friend Rick. He was 83 at the time and became more than a mentor to the 8 year old Tom. Stalking Wolf epitomised the great teacher everyone seeks but does not find in today's world where too many people have isolated themselves from the natural world.

In this second book, which really tells of his time as a young man in his late teens and twenties, Tom Brown writes in a much more mature style although never losing that close connection he has with the natural world or in fact with himself. He is never afraid to truly feel in any situation, a rare quality in any man today. After having learned much that Stalking Wolf could teach him he made his own way living in the wilderness in every area of the US for long periods of time and gaining the experience and connections that make him a great tracker and survivor. At the same time he feels somewhat lost in the modern world and has doubts whether he is making the right choices in life. While his relations and friends tell him to live like others, get a job, get married, have kids etc he only feels at home in the woods. On the other hand Stalking Wolf's words telling to be at home anywhere in the world remain in his mind. It is because the people surrounding him do not know their way that he is confused. Slowly through many experiences, including the tracking of his old teacher as he goes for his final walk, Tom Brown becomes a spirit tracker on the first stage to the keen sight which Stalking Wolf had in abundance in his ability to see the Spirit that moves in all things in action in the world.

An astonishing book with incredible depth of spirit.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A worthwhile follow-up to "The Tracker", August 25, 1997

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[e-mail] (St. Louis, Missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Search (Paperback)

Though not as quite as inspired as the tracker was, the search continues the story of Tom's life in the outdoors and the further challenges he put himself through

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tom Brown Jr's "as told to" authors, December 27, 2008

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Diana S. Daniels "Dhyana" (Southeastern Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Search (Paperback)

Tom Brown Jr. has led a fascinating life due to his tracking skills. Tracker and Search were written with two different authors, and that made all the difference. Tracker is not just an account of an interesting lifestyle, it is a work of literature. The Tracker author told Tom's story with sensitivity, intelligence and depth. I read and reread whole paragraphs because of the beautiful use of language. It was a spiritual/philosophical work and I hated to finish reading it; the images created were so moving. Clearly, Brown knows a whole lot more about tracking than he does writing, which explains the downgrading of the writing and depth of Search.