The Heart of Tracking

About this book

Originally published in recurring dispatches for a small town newspaper this collection of essays by noted California naturalist Richard Vacha reads like a delighted field journal full of insights into the mystic sensory and nearly-forgotten world of animal tracking. Through a series of outings Vacha traverses the prismatic experience of tracking and brings it to our level. Practical investigations of signs and tracks draw close to the lives of all the animals in his landscape including bobcats badgers skunks coyotes and one particular vulture. With spontaneous energy Vachas essays reveal the practice of asking sacred questions and the process of stripping down to your senses in order to enter this primal awareness. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Religion & Spirituality.