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Tom Brown, Jr. (born January 29, 1950) is an American naturalist, tracker, survivalist, and author. According to Brown, he grew up in New Jersey being trained by his adopted grandfather (a Lipan Apache) until he was 17. For the next decade, Tom traveled and lived primitively in various places across North and South America. Returning to New Jersey, he became a professional tracker, which in turn led to him forming the "Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School". ==Early life== Brown was born on January 29, 1950, in Toms River, New Jersey, and graduated from Toms River High School in 1968. In his books, Brown claims that, from the age of seven, he and his childhood friend Rick were trained in tracking and wilderness survival by Rick's grandfather, Stalking Wolf, who had relocated to the Pine Barrens wilderness near Toms River to be closer to Rick's family. Brown writes that Stalking Wolf died when Brown was 17, and that Rick was killed in a horse riding accident in Europe shortly thereafter. 〔Tom Brown, Jr., ''The Tracker'' (Penguin Books, 1978,'86) ( * )〕 Brown claims that he spent the next ten years living in different wilderness areas of the United States, working on his skills and using few manufactured tools to survive. Brown then returned to New Jersey and set out to find people who were interested in the abilities he had developed through first-hand experience with nature. He initially met with little success, but was eventually called on to locate a missing person.〔Tom Brown, Jr., ''The Search'' (Penguin Books, 1980,'01) ( * )〕 Building on this, Brown developed a profession as a full-time tracker by locating lost persons, dangerous animals, and fugitives from the law. 〔Terry Krautwurst, "The Tom Brown School Wilderness Training" (''Mother Earth News'', Mar-Apr 1988) ( * )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Brown, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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