SAS Guide to Tracking, New and Revised
by Carss, Bob; Birch, Stewart; Thomasson, Roy; Wiseman, John LoftyEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-11-25
Publisher(s): Lyons Press
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Summary
Anyone who has spent any time outdoors has come across strange tracks and wondered, "What was here?" In this new and revised edition of The SAS Guide to Tracking, a veteran of Britain's elite Special Air Service shows how to track any moving thing, in any environment, and under nearly any circumstance. An essential handbook for developing a new awareness of the outdoors, this book is the perfect companion for naturalists, outdoors people, hunters, wildlife photographers, search-and-rescue teams, and law enforcement organizations.
Author Biography
Bob Carss began his military career at age seventeen with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He transferred to the world-famous Special Air Service (SAS), where he received training as a tracker in the jungles of New Zealand and with the Iban trackers in Brunei, desert tracking in the dunes of the Empty Quarter and the Sahara, and in all terrains in between. Both Carss and illustrator Stewart Birch live in Hereford, England, where the SAS Regiment is based.
Table of Contents
| The SAS Guide to Tracking, New and Revised | |
| The Briefing | |
| Tracking today - some modern applications Some definitions and explanations Sign in tracking - defined and explained Factors affecting sign | |
| The attributes of a tracker | |
| The Pursuit | |
| Observation indoors Observation out-of-doors | |
| Observation of the individual | |
| The principles of stalking | |
| Stalking techniques Night movement | |
| The track pursuit drill | |
| Deception tactics | |
| Judging the age of sign | |
| Deductive skills | |
| The lost track drill | |
| Advanced skills | |
| Training trackers Military tracking | |
| Dogs and tracking | |
| Map-reading Human prints | |
| Animal prints | |
| Vehicle sign Preserving prints | |
| The Future | |
| Developments in tracking | |
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