Field Guide Series

Here is the perfect survival 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


TOM BROWN’S FIELD GUIDES: America’s most popular nature reference books, Tom Brown’s bestselling field guides are specially designed for both beginners and experienced explorers. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, each volume includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and exciting new ways to rediscover the earth around us.

Tom Brown’s Field Guide to the Forgotten Wilderness takes the reader on a fascinating journey into nature’s mysteries and magic, and presents a treasure trove of knowledge, insight, and anecdotes.

Tom Brown, Jr. shows readers how to open their eyes to the surprising abundance of natural beauty that can be found in the urban and suburban landscapes of backyards, local parks, highway medians, and even windowsill flower boxes.

TOM BROWN’S FIELD GUIDES: America’s most popular nature reference books, Tom Brown’s bestselling field guides are specially designed for both beginners and experienced explorers. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, each volume includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and exciting new ways to rediscover the earth around us.

For untold thousands of years, human beings have thrived on the nutritional and medicinal wealth of the plant life in the natural world. In these fascinating, wide-ranging, wonderfully informative stories, Tom Brown—director of the world-famous Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival School—tells all about the uncommon benefits of the common trees, shrubs, flowers, and other plants we find all around us. This indispensible guide includes information on:

• How to use every part of the plant—leaves, flowers, bark, bulbs, and roots
• Where to find useful plants, and the best time of the year and stages of growth to harvest them
• How to prepare delicious food dishes, soups, breads and teas from the riches of the great outdoors
• An incredible range of experience-proven medicinal uses to treat headaches, burns, digestive disorders, skin problems, and a host of other maladies

TOM BROWN’S FIELD GUIDES: America’s most popular nature reference books, Tom Brown’s bestselling field guides are specially designed for both beginners and experienced explorers. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, each volume includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and exciting new ways to rediscover the earth around us.

In the fourth book in his bestselling survival series, master tracker and outdoorsman Tom Brown, Jr. goes beyond survival and unlocks his personal storehouse of experience to share the secrets of adaptation, the single most important survival skill.

Includes details on:

• How to construct your own superbly functional “Earthshelter” in any environment, in any season, with any materials

• How to make your own tools, weapons, furniture, clothing, utensils, even works of art, from materials plentiful in the wilderness

• How to use the plants, animals, and earth around you to nurture you both physically and spiritually, as so-called “primitive peoples” have done since the dawn of time.

TOM BROWN’S FIELD GUIDES: America’s most popular nature reference books, Tom Brown’s bestselling field guides are specially designed for both beginners and experienced explorers. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, each volume includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and exciting new ways to rediscover the earth around us.

Prepare for the worst with this practical survival guide from bestselling author Tom Brown.

Today most Americans live in the city or suburbs—a safe, comfortable life, at least on the surface. Few of us realize how close we are to the elemental struggle for survival, until disaster strikes. Yet it is possible to be prepared. In this uniquely practical handbook, Tom Brown, Jr. gives you the specific skills and detailed knowledge you need to protect yourself and those you love in almost any emergency.

• Alternative heat and light sources
• Preventing and coping with electrical failure
• Automobile survival techniques
• Protecting your home from intruders
• Unconventional food sources for the city dweller
• Surviving earthquakes, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, and more
• Guarding against urban crime

TOM BROWN’S FIELD GUIDES: America’s most popular nature reference books, Tom Brown’s bestselling field guides are specially designed for both beginners and experienced explorers. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, each volume includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and exciting new ways to rediscover the earth around us.

Utilizing the ancient lore of Native Americans, Tom Brown passes on a timeless tradition that connects humankind to Earth.

This unique volume teaches us the basics of sight, smell, and taste; it shows us how to become one with nature, and how to receive all the signs and signals of the multitude of living creatures with whom we share the beauty and bounty of the wilderness.

• How to restore to our senses all the amazing powers stolen away by civilization
• How to move as silently as the Native American scouts
• How to spot and identify the tracks of a vast variety of animals
• How to find humas lost in the wilderness

TOM BROWN’S FIELD GUIDES: America’s most popular nature reference books, Tom Brown’s bestselling field guides are specially designed for both beginners and experienced explorers. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, each volume includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and exciting new ways to rediscover the earth around us.

A fully illustrated wilderness survival guide perfect for seasoned and novice outdoors enthusiasts alike.

Here, in one essential volume, are the basics of wilderness survival. The most ancient and important skills, preserved for generations, are presented in a simple, easy-to-use format with clear illustrations and instructions. A complete must-have companion to the great outdoors.

• How to build natural shelters in plains, woods, or deserts
• How to get safe drinking water from plants, trees, the sun, or Earth Herself
• How to make fire without matches and maintain it in any weather
• How to find, stalk, kill, and prepare animals for food
• The “big four” edible plants, and hundreds of others useful for both nutrition and medicine

TOM BROWN’S FIELD GUIDES: America’s most popular nature reference books, Tom Brown’s bestselling field guides are specially designed for both beginners and experienced explorers. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, each volume includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and exciting new ways to rediscover the earth around us.