Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals--And Other Forgotten Skills
eBook, 448 pages
English language
Published Aug. 5, 2015 by Experiment.
Gooley's more than two decades of pioneering outdoor experience include research among the Dayak people of Borneo and the Tuareg of the Sahara. With his first book, The Natural Navigator, he started a renaissance in the rare art of reading nature's clues. Now, in The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, Gooley has compiled more than 850 outdoor tips many not found in any other book in the world that will open readers' eyes to nature's hidden logic. He shares techniques for forecasting and tracking, and for walking in the country or city, along the coast, and by night. This is the ultimate resource on what the land, sun, moon, stars, plants, animals, and clouds can reveal if you only know how to look!
Gooley's more than two decades of pioneering outdoor experience include research among the Dayak people of Borneo and the Tuareg of the Sahara. With his first book, The Natural Navigator, he started a renaissance in the rare art of reading nature's clues. Now, in The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, Gooley has compiled more than 850 outdoor tips many not found in any other book in the world that will open readers' eyes to nature's hidden logic. He shares techniques for forecasting and tracking, and for walking in the country or city, along the coast, and by night. This is the ultimate resource on what the land, sun, moon, stars, plants, animals, and clouds can reveal if you only know how to look!
A lot of interesting tidbits, though a lot of it is mostly just applicable to the UK. Also about a third of the book is about the author's adventures, which, though not boring, is not why I picked up the book.
A lot of interesting tidbits, though a lot of it is mostly just applicable to the UK. Also about a third of the book is about the author's adventures, which, though not boring, is not why I picked up the book.
This was really interesting. I'm not much of an outdoorswoman, but it's still really cool to know how much rhyme and reason there is behind what you see outside, and to imagine being able to find your way without your phone, or even a compass or map.
This was really interesting. I'm not much of an outdoorswoman, but it's still really cool to know how much rhyme and reason there is behind what you see outside, and to imagine being able to find your way without your phone, or even a compass or map.
