Description:
"The Sherlock Holmes of Nature."--BBC
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Learn to spot the endlessly unfolding clues and signs that reveal the hidden ways nature changes every day of the year
"Gooley preaches attention to common patterns in nature like a sommelier describing wine--the shadows cast by the sun here, the tree angled there, the moss greener on this side of the rock."--The New York Times
"One of the most skilled navigators on the planet."--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: Gooley is your man. . . . With unflappable practicality, he shares simple ways to understand your surroundings, whether you're beside a stream or on the open sea at night, without instruments.--Discover magazine