Description:
"The Sherlock Holmes of nature."--BBC
Turn every walk into a game of detection--with master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Read a Tree and The Natural Navigator
"The world's least lost wanderer. . . . Tristan's forever stopping, examining, trying to solve the riddles that nature sets in front of him."--Smithsonian
Brief description: Tristan Gooley is the New York Times-bestselling author of How to Read Water, How to Read Nature, The Natural Navigator, The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, The Secret World of Weather, The Nature Instinct, How to Read a Tree, and The Hidden Seasons. He has led expeditions on five continents, climbed mountains in three, and is the only living person to have both flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic. His more than two decades of pioneering outdoor experience include research among tribal peoples in some of the remotest regions on Earth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society, a vice-chairman of Trailfinders, and he runs the world's only school of natural navigation.
Review Quotes: Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
Winner of the Outdoor Book of the Year, The Great Outdoors Awards 2015
INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Adventure & Recreation 2015
"Gooley interprets clues like a private investigator of the wilds, leaving no stone unturned . . . For those inclined to solve mysteries written into the landscape, this author's lead is one they'll want to follow.-- "The Wall Street Journal"