Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 400
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Trim: 5¾ x 8½
978-1-4930-4430-6 • Paperback • April 2020 • $22.95 • (£17.99)
978-1-4930-4431-3 • eBook • April 2020 • $21.50 • (£16.99)
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.
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
"Who Dares, Wins."
--Motto of the Special Air Service (SAS)
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All over the world.