The Natural Navigator

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Gooley, Tristan

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The Natural Navigator: The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide

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“A captivating guide to finding one’s way in the wild.”—The Wall Street Journal
The culmination of everything Tristan Gooley has written so far: How to take what you learn about the outdoors—and make it second nature
Publisher's note: The Nature Instinct was published in the UK under the title Wild Signs and Star Paths.
Readers of master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley have learned that the world is filled with clues to look for—we can use the Big Dipper to tell time, for example, and a budding flower to find south. But what about the innate survival instincts that told Gooley to move on one night, just as he was about to make camp? Everything looked perfect, but something felt wrong. When Gooley returned to his abandoned campsite to search for clues, there they were: All of the tree trunks were slightly bent. The ground had already shifted once in a storm—and could easily shift again, becoming treacherous in heavy rain.
The Nature Instinct shows us how Gooley and other expert observers—from hunters in the English countryside to the Pygmy people in the Congo—have recovered and rekindled this lost “sixth sense;” a subconscious, deeper understanding of our surroundings. By training ourselves through slow, careful observation, we too can unlock this kind of intuition—for finding the forest’s edge when deep in the woods, or knowing when a wild animal might pose danger—without even having to stop to think about it.

The Nature Instinct: Learn to Find Direction, Sense Danger, and Even Guess Nature's Next Move--Faster Than Thought

How to Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection
When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterfly hints at the weather; a sand dune reveals prevailing wind; the scent of cinnamon suggests altitude; a budding flower points south. To help you understand nature as he does, Gooley shares more than 850 tips for forecasting, tracking, and more, gathered from decades spent walking the landscape around his home and around the world. Whether you’re walking in the country or city, along a coastline, or 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!

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

Get ready to put away your map and look up from your GPS with this glorious introduction to the art of finding your way using natural clues.Starting with a simple question - 'Which way am I looking?' - Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon. With Tristan's help, you'll learn why some trees grow the way they do and how they can help you find your way in the countryside. You'll discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean and in the heart of the city. Wonderfully detailed and full of fascinating stories, this is a glorious exploration of the rediscovered art of natural navigation.'Tristan Gooley's The Natural Navigator will teach you how to find your way using not just the moon, sun and stars but spider's webs, tennis courts and even ruts on a track. He throws in entertaining anecdotes from the history of navigation and from his own impressive Atlantic journeys, but really he's giving you an addictive hobby, and a newly refined sense of time and place.' The Sunday Times'A must for any lover of the outdoors.' The Telegraph'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 New York Times Bestseller A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian--with a little help from the "natural navigator" In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs and The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley helped readers reconnect with nature by finding direction from the trees, stars, clouds, and more. Now, he turns his attention to our most abundant--yet perhaps least understood--resource. Distilled from his far-flung adventures--sailing solo across the Atlantic, navigating with Omani tribespeople, canoeing in Borneo, and walking in his own backyard--Gooley shares hundreds of techniques in How to Read Water. Readers will: <ul><li>Find north using puddles</li><li>Forecast the weather from waves</li><li>Decode the colors of ponds</li><li>Spot dangerous water in the dark</li><li>Decipher wave patterns on beaches, and more </li></ul>

Starting with a simple question - 'Which way am I looking?' - Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon. With Tristan's help, you'll learn why some trees grow the way they do and how they can help you find your way in the countryside. You'll discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean and in the heart of the city. Wonderfully detailed and full of fascinating stories, this is a glorious exploration of a rediscovered art. "The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide" is a user-friendly, practical book and the beautiful illustrations are a useful tool to help travellers on their instrument-free journey.

The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide

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The Natural Navigator

The Natural Navigator: The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide

The Nature Instinct: Learn to Find Direction, Sense Danger, and Even Guess Nature's Next Move--Faster Than Thought

How to Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

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

The Natural Navigator: The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide

The Nature Instinct: Learn to Find Direction, Sense Danger, and Even Guess Nature's Next Move--Faster Than Thought

How to Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

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

The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide