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Loading... The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs (edition 2015)by Tristan Gooley (Author)
Work InformationThe 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 by Tristan Gooley
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I didn't finish this one. It crossed my desk at work and I picked it up at the library to see if it would be a good read for a friend. Which it may be, but it isn't a good read for me at the moment. I got what I needed from it though! Following on from his previous books, The natural Navigator & The Natural Explorer, Gooley in this one is hoping to expand your knowledge of the natural world. It is a reference work, written to be used to build your knowledge of the outside environment, with lots of examples and is packed with data for you to use and learn. Using clues from the sky and the flora and fauna around you, he will teach you how to tell the time using the stars, how listening to the sounds that birds make will tell you if there is anyone else out there with you, how to read the lie of the land, use the plants and trees to gauge where the compass points are, the prevailing winds to get decent shelter and how to read and use the phases of the moon for night walks. He has included a couple of chapters on the urban environment too, and shows how to use your observation skills on items like TV aerials to ascertain direction and how the use of modern technology like smartphones has led to changes in how and where people shop. He has also included an account of a trip to Borneo, and of his time spent with the nomadic natives there, understanding how they moved and navigated through dense jungles. A fascinating book, packed full of details and tip for enhancing any journey or trip that you take. One of the most important things that you can take away from this is the power of observation of your environment can reveal so much detail about where you are. Well worth reading. 3.5 stars overall * Temperature inversion: warm air traps cold air * Can smell smoke from far away that gets trapped * Sound travels faster, so can hear distant sounds * Refraction changes. Normally distant thugs like sun appear squashed. With inversion they appear stretched vertically * Extreme case is Fata Morgana where bridges and boats levitate above water * Rayleigh scattering (why sky is blue) makes further objects s appear lighter in color * Low sun on our back enhanced the colors in front of us * Slopes facing wind have thinner soil and shorter trees * Don’t look at anything moving when balance is critical * Glaciers flowing up a rock smoothe it, going down roughen it * Rivers can be tidal with opposite flows * Smooth pebbles mean erosion by glacier or rover * Second set of bike car tires will cut closer to the curve and override the front ones tracks. So you can tell direction. * Moss indicates north, moisture * Lichens indicate clean air, south side no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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