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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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [378]-381) and index

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The lost art of reading nature's signs

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Tristan Gooley ; illustrations by Neil Gower

use outdoor clues to find your way, predict the weather, locate water, track animals—and other forgotten skills

"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!" --, provided by publisher

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

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