From the bestselling author of THE WALKER'S GUIDE TO OUTDOOR CLUES & SIGNS & THE NATURAL EXPLORERA must-have book for walkers sailors swimmers anglers & everyone interested in the natural world in How To Read Water Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge skills tips & useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you A Sunday Times ' Must Read' book'A magical & inspiring quest for knowledge'
- Countryside' Anyone who spends time in on or by water
- whether at the helm of a narrowboat or merely playing Poohsticks with grandkids
- will benefit from some of the extraordinary insights in this book'
- Waterways World' Jam-packed with information this book will fascinate sailors fishers birders naturalists hikers & anyone interested in the natural world'
- Forbes' This study of rivers lakes puddles & seas brims over with astonishing facts His observational skills can be breathtaking' The Sunday Times' This inspired guide to water in all its forms will make a big splash Gooley has done his subject proud
- this is seriously fascinating stuff' The Times' The quirks & habits & secrets of good old H2O were crying out to have a book written about them That said it had to be written by the right person Fortunately the job went to Tristan Gooley' The Spectator
Includes: over 700 clues signs & 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 & more to show us all the skills we need to read the water around us