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Title: Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species by Mark Elbroch ISBN: 0-8117-2626-6 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best of the best
Comment: This book is it! I have been tracking for about a year now and i recently baught this book and it is the best i have seen. it is both handy in the field and at home moreover the personal accounts from mark are fabulous and add an important dimension to tracking that illustrates his thinking that most books leave out. I have been studying deer in my area and this book has been by far the most helpful of all the books i have used. Thanks Mark!
Rating: 5
Summary: National Outdoor Book Award Winner
Comment: I am the author of this book. Just a few comments and news:
Mammal Tracks and Sign is the recipient of a 2003 National Outdoor Book Award: Winner in the Nature Guidebooks competition. NOBA's comments can be read in full at http://www.isu.edu/outdoor/books/ and include:
"Mammal Tracks and Sign is one of the most thorough and complete guides to animal tracking ever published...It's a monumental effort and an invaluable reference for anyone who enjoys tracking and viewing wildlife."
I've awarded the book five stars not for myself-although I'm proud of the achievement-but for Stackpole Books, the publisher. When you hold this book, feel its weight, and flip through the 1058 color photos, over 300 illustrations and close to 800 pages, consider the material costs of such an endeavor-the investment and the risk for a publisher. Stackpole committed to creating the most comprehensive guide to mammal tracking in North America, and possibly the world. I think they've done it. It is beautiful and far exceeds previous publications on tracking; it stands as a testimonial to the importance of saving wildlife tracking skills around the globe. My thanks to Stackpole Books for unending support and enthusiasm.
(Funny enough, 115 pages were cut from the initial layout, to address concerns over the strength of the resulting binding.)
Rating: 3
Summary: Excellent but with a caveat or two
Comment: While I agree with most of the praise that others readers of this book have expressed, there are a few oddities. Most of the tracks, etc. are photographed without a scale to give an immediate impression of relative size. Additionally, some of the schematic drawings are sometimes confusingly labeled, though the meanings of each become clear with a few re-readings. I guess I wish that the author had asked less experienced trackers to review the manuscript, as a lot of these minor details would probably have been cleared up prior to publication. That being said, one of the major strengths of this guide is the section that illustates various gaits and the subsequent trails they potentially leave. Very few, if any, other guides out there give this difficult aspect of tracking the exhaustive treatment that this author does; a much-needed treatise, so thank you!
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Title: Bird Tracks & Sign : A Guide to North American Species by Mark Elbroch, Eleanor Marks, C. Diane Boretos ISBN: 0811726967 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Tracking and the Art of Seeing 2e : How to Read Animal Tracks and Sign by Paul Rezendes ISBN: 0062735241 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Case Files of the Tracker: True Stories from America's Greatest Outdoorsman by Tom, Jr. Brown ISBN: 0425187551 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Field Guide to Tracking Animals in Snow by Louise Richardson Forrest, Denise Casey ISBN: 0811722406 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Skulls and Bones: A Guide to the Skeletal Structures and Behavior of North American Mammals by Glenn Searfoss ISBN: 0811725715 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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