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Tom Brown (naturalist)

From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.

Tom Brown, Jr. was born on January 29, 1950 in Toms River, New Jersey. He graduated from Toms River High School in 1968, but from the age of seven he was schooled in the arts of tracking, wilderness survival and awareness by an Apache elder named Grandfather, or Stalking Wolf. Stalking Wolf died when Brown was 17. For the next ten years, Brown lived almost exclusively in the wilderness of the United States using few manufactured tools to survive.

When Tom Brown left the wilderness he had come to know so well, he set out to find people who were interested in the finely-honed skills he had developed through so much direct experience with the elements and nature. He met with little success, but eventually he was called on to locate a missing person, and since then he has been widely known as "the Tracker".

Building upon this reputation, Brown developed his profession as a full-time tracker by locating lost persons, dangerous animals and fugitives from the law. Brown's first book (The Tracker, published in 1978) chronicles these experiences. Reader's Digest ran a condensed version of the story and printed information about Brown's new Tracker School.

Today Tom Brown's Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School is the largest school of its kind. The school teaches people from all over the world and from all walks of life who share an interest in learning the simplicity of an utterly natural way of living.

Brown has written 16 books to date. These include Grandfather, The Way of the Scout, and a celebrated series of wilderness field guides. Brown was also the technical advisor for the film The Hunted (2003) starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro.

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