How To Read Water

Tristan Gooley

• 07 april 2016
• 9781473631380

Samenvatting:

The author of the top ten bestseller The Walker's Guide and The Natural Navigator unlocks the secrets hidden in the water around us, from streams and puddles to oceans and waterfalls.

Acclaim for Tristan Gooley

The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs

'One of the richest, densest, most rewarding books on nature I have read in a long time...its joy in deduction is infectiously delightful.' James McConnachie, Sunday Times

'Gooley can show the most moonstruck how to interpret their surroundings. Even the intrepid Bear Grylls could learn a trick or two from this book.' The Times

'I for one will never look at the British countryside in quite the same way again.' Countryfile Magazine

'This text is densely packed with information, engagingly and clearly written ... Every outdoor-lover should have at least one Tristan Gooley book in their library.' The Great Outdoors magazine

The Natural Navigator

' The Natural Navigator is a wonderfully stimulating book. Tristan Gooley sidesteps technology to celebrate our own powers of observation, and suggests that the art of natural navigation is something we should never have forgotten.' Michael Palin

'A must for any lover of the outdoors.' Daily Telegraph

The Natural Explorer

'A charming and intelligent guide to exploring the local landscape.' Financial Times

A Sunday Times 'Must Read' book

'This study of rivers, lakes, puddles and seas brims over with astonishing facts...His observational skills can be breathtaking' The Sunday Times

A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How To Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you.

Includes over 700 clues, signs and patterns.

You'll learn how to:

Interpret ponds like a Polynesian

Spot dangerous water in the pitch black with the help of a clock face

Read the sea like a Viking

Forecast the weather from waves

Find your way with puddles

Decipher wave patterns on beaches

Decode the colour of water

Unravel a river like an expert

From wild swimming in Sussex to wayfinding off Oman, via the icy mysteries of the Arctic, Tristan Gooley draws on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the secrets of ponds, puddles, rivers, oceans and more to show us all the skills we need to read the water around us.

(P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton