The SAS Guide to Tracking

3rd Edition

Bob Carss - With Stewart Birch - Illustrated by Roy Thomasson - Foreword by John "Lofty" Wiseman

With a Foreword by John “Lofty” Wiseman, author of The SAS Survival Handbook!

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, outdoorspeople, hunters, wildlife photographers, search-and-rescue teams, and law enforcement organizations.

Included are tips on:

Tracking in desert, forest, jungle, marsh, and grassy areas
Interpreting animal, human, and vehicle signs
Preserving night vision
Using time frames to eliminate misleading signs
Detecting quarry when they backtrack or circle around
Interpreting how time and weather affect signs
Spotting intentionally misleading signs

Globe Pequot / Lyons Press

Pages: 368 • Trim: 5½ x 8½

978-1-4930-4430-6 • Paperback • April 2020 • $22.95 • (£15.95)

978-1-4930-4431-3 • eBook • April 2020 • $21.50 • (£14.95) (coming soon)

Series: SAS

Subjects: History / Military / Special Forces

The SAS Guide to Tracking

3rd Edition

Paperback

Summary

With a Foreword by John “Lofty” Wiseman, author of The SAS Survival Handbook!

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, outdoorspeople, hunters, wildlife photographers, search-and-rescue teams, and law enforcement organizations.

Included are tips on:
- Tracking in desert, forest, jungle, marsh, and grassy areas
- Interpreting animal, human, and vehicle signs
- Preserving night vision
- Using time frames to eliminate misleading signs
- Detecting quarry when they backtrack or circle around
- Interpreting how time and weather affect signs
- Spotting intentionally misleading signs

Details

Globe Pequot / Lyons Press

Pages: 368 • Trim: 5½ x 8½

978-1-4930-4430-6 • Paperback • April 2020 • $22.95 • (£15.95)

978-1-4930-4431-3 • eBook • April 2020 • $21.50 • (£14.95) (coming soon)

Series: SAS

Subjects: History / Military / Special Forces

Author

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 Bob Carss and Stewart Birch live in Hereford, England, where the SAS Regiment is based.

Table of Contents

The SAS Guide to Tracking, New and Revised

Part One: 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

Part Two: 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

Part Three: Advanced skills

Training trackers
Military tracking
Dogs and tracking
Map-reading
Human prints
Animal prints
Vehicle sign
Preserving prints

Part Four: The Future

Developments in tracking

Index

Reviews

"Who Dares, Wins."
--Motto of the Special Air Service (SAS)

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3rd Edition

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