Training in Tracking

Gilcraft

• Publisher: Das Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781447426486
• eBook ISBN: 9781473383920

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• Author’s Note
• I. What is it All About?
• II. General Training of the Senses
• III. Observation Indoors
• IV. Observation Out-of-Doors
• V. Observation of the Individual
• VI. Stalking—Points to Observe
• VII. Stalking—How to Get Down to it
• VIII. Stalking by Night and Lying Doggo
• IX. Following a Trail
• X. Training in Tracking
• XI. Human Footprints
• XII. Booted Tracks
• XIII. Human Tracks—General Classifications
• XIV. Human Tracks—Peculiar Characteristics
• XV. Tracking and Deduction
• XVI. Deduction and the Detective
• XVII. The Tracks of Bicycles, Motor-Cars and Other Vehicles
• XVIII. Animal Tracks—General Classifications
• XIX. Animal Tracks—Peculiar Characteristics
• XX. Bird Tracks and the Snow as a Tracking Medium
• XXI. Plaster Casts
• XXII. Tracking Rules
• XXIII. The Influence of Ground, Time and Weather
• XXIV. Training in Tracking for Scouts and Cubs
• Appendix: Tracker’s Badge
• Bibliography
• Index