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The lost art of reading nature's signs : use outdoor clues to find your way, predict the weather, locate water, track animals-- and other forgotten skills / Tristan Gooley ; illustrations by Neil Gower.

by Gooley, Tristan.

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Experiment, 2015.

9781615192410 (pbk.)

1615192417 (pbk.)

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Reading nature's signs : use outdoor clues to find your way, predict the weather, locate water, track animals-- and other forgotten skill

Nature's signs : use outdoor clues to find your way, predict the weather, locate water, track animals-- and other forgotten skill

xll; 402 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

"First published in Great Britain in 2014 as The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs: Their Meaning and the Art of Making Predictions and Deductions by Sceptre."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the author's previous book, The Natural Navigator, he started a renaissance in the rare art of reading nature’s clues. Now, Gooley has compiled more than 850 outdoor tips that will open readers' eyes to nature's hidden logic. Techniques for forecasting and tracking, and for walking in the country or city, along the coast, and by night. The ultimate resource on what the land, sun, moon, stars, plants, animals, and clouds can reveal -- if you only know how to look! Tristan Gooley is a writer and navigator. He has led expeditions in five continents, climbed mountains in Europe, Africa and Asia, sailed small boats across oceans and piloted small aircraft to Africa and the Arctic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society.

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