Mockler-Ferryman A.F. Military Sketching and Reconnaissance

London: Edward Stanford, 1907. — 250 p.This book is intended to be instructive, and in order that it may be so I have endeavoured to describe everything as simply as possible, not hesitating to indulge in constant repetitions where I have deemed them necessary. The reader is considered to be a beginner, and he is taken through the subject from start to finish. By studying the earlier chapters, by putting into practice what he reads, and by working on the lines recommended in the later chapters, I feel confident that any British officer may become (even without personal instruction) a thoroughly efficient military sketcher. I would go further, and say that he may become a trained observer, an expert scout, and a man capable of developing in others their latent powers of observation.
Many men imagine that they are unable to draw or to produce good topographical work, and that consequently the study of Military Sketching is for them a waste of time. This is a fallacy. The worst draughtsman may, on service, produce invaluable work, and furnish information of the greatest importance, provided that he has trained himself in the allied branches of military science, and knows what to look out for and how to report it.