Non-Fiction, Languages & Reference, Dictionaries & Reference, Natural World & Environment, Nature Writing
The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs
Paperback Published on: 21/05/2015
Price: £12.99
Synopsis
The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal - when you know what to look for. Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs.
This top ten bestseller is the result of Tristan Gooley's two decades of pioneering outdoors experience and six years of instructing, researching and writing. It includes lots of outdoor clues and signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.
As well as the most comprehensive guide to natural navigation for walkers ever compiled, it also contains clues for weather forecasting, tracking, city walks, coast walks, night walks and dozens of other areas.
From the author of How To Read Water, The Sunday Times Book Of The Year.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 9781444780109
- Number of pages: 448
- Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 32 mm
- Weight: 307g
- Languages: English
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how to look for countryside signs
The book was a present,but i would have kept it looked interesting.
Remarkably dull
I'm 100 pages in and have so far been told, over and over, that trees lean away from the wind and many plants prefer sunny slopes.
The "outdoor clues and ... READ MORE
Some interesting answers to curious observations during everyday strolls.
I have worked as a volunteer naturalist in several Parks & Wildlife Refuges for years. I found Gooley's observations to be especially useful in working wi... READ MORE
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Mildly intetesting, not very useful.
The odd bit of useful & interesting information.. Much of it isn't really either because the average traveller will have other means of navigating and it ... READ MORE
Interesting and informative.
Tristan Gooley has written a wonderful book. The number of things that I was aware of, but had not previously thought about, was staggering.
If you spend a... READ MORE