Tom Brown, Jr., grew up in the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens. He was schooled mercilessly but compassionately in woodlore and survival by his best-friend’s father, a Navajo tracker named Stalking Wolf. With a consummate storyteller’s skill (perhaps that of his coauthor) he entices the rest of us by telling how he exchanged his small-town-boy’s self-centeredness for the cunning, observant care, and sheer goodheartedness of a tracker. The result is a masterpiece of lore about how to see and how to learn. The Tracker was his first book. The Search is its sequel. It includes the thoughts that led to the founding of The Tracker School. The school emphasizes the increasing of your sensitivity to what’s going on around you. It is claimed that an apt student will be able to sneak up to deer close enough to touch one. From what we’ve
