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 ; with editorial contributions by Marc Williams.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : The Experiment, [2015]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1615192417 (pbk.)
- 9781615192410 (pbk.)
- Walker's guide to outdoor clues and signs
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 796.5 G659 | Available | 33111008037000 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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!
Publisher's Note: The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs was previously published in the UK under the title The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs.
"First published in the UK as The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs by Sceptre, 2014."
Includes bibliographical references (pages [378]-381) and index.
Getting started -- Ground -- Trees -- Plants -- Mosses, algae, fungi and lichens -- A walk with rocks and wildflowers -- Sky and weather -- Stars -- Sun -- Moon -- A night walk -- Animals -- A walk with the Dayak part I -- City, town and village -- A city walk with invisible snakes -- Coast, rivers and lakes -- Snow and sand -- A walk with the Dayak part II -- Rare and extraordinary -- The breakthrough -- Your invisible toolbox.
Presents a compendium of information and forecasting details that can be gathered from observations about plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, clouds, stars, sun, and the moon. --Publisher's description.