Tristan Gooley. (2016). How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea (Natural Navigation). The Experiment.

Tristan Gooley. 2016. How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns From Puddles to the Sea (Natural Navigation). The Experiment.

Tristan Gooley, How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns From Puddles to the Sea (Natural Navigation). The Experiment, 2016.

Tristan Gooley. How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns From Puddles to the Sea (Natural Navigation). The Experiment, 2016.

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     New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley has led expeditions on five continents, climbed mountains in three, and is the only living person to have both flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic. His more than two decades of pioneering outdoor experience include research among tribal peoples in some of the remotest regions on Earth.
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Hone your senses and learn to read the hidden signs of nature—from master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Read a Tree and The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs

"Equal parts alfresco inspiration, interesting factoids, how-to instructions and self-help advice."—The Wall Street Journal

When most of us go for a walk, a single sense—sight—tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times–bestselling author and expert navigator Tristan Gooley goes for a walk, he uses all five senses to "read" everything nature has to offer. A single lowly weed can serve as his compass, calendar, clock, and even pharmacist.

In How to Read Nature, Gooley introduces readers to his world—where the sky, sea, and land teem with marvels. Plus, he shares 15 exercises to sharpen all of your senses. Soon you'll be making your own discoveries, every time you step outside!

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   • source: The Wall Street Journal
   • content: A New York Times Bestseller
     A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016
     2016 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner
     
     "Mr. Gooley misses little in his paean to Earth's most abundant resource. . . . He starts small, at a mud puddle watching ripples fan out from a pebble drop, and ends big, in the frigid reaches of the Arctic Sea. Along the way he asks and answers many questions. If you like water, as I do, you will learn a lot.
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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: Even if you don't live near a lake, river or ocean, this fascinating book teaches you how to read water patterns in rain puddles and any other place water gathers.
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: With the help of this book, and with careful attention and observation, anyone can learn how to interpret the messages water offers to aid in everything from navigation to weather forecasting. A ­riveting and highly accessible book that will appeal to water enthusiasts and nature lovers of all kinds.
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: Avid and budding outdoorspeople will appreciate Gooley's breadth of knowledge and accessible approach.
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   • content: This study of the behavior of rivers, lakes, and seas brims over with astonishing facts. . . . His observational skills can be breathtaking. . . . Gooley's infectious delight in knowledge translates into a gleeful hoarding of words . . . . The joy of these words and phenomena is that they make you yearn to observe them in the real world. . . . Gooley even manages to explain tides coherently and excitingly in just 14 pages, which is quite some feat, given that they are a lot more complicated than being a mere effect of the moon's gravity.
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   • source: The Royal Institute of Navigation
   • content: Quite apart from being well written and an enjoyable read, there is plenty in the book that is revelatory.
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   • content: He writes with passion, humor, and clarity, and engages so deeply with the tributaries of inquiry that reading it feels as exhilarating as being towed by a dolphin. . . . There's so much here that I can't do it justice; chapters on water at night; currents and tides; reading waves; the coast. This is an absolute gem of a book. A must-have for anyone who loves the water.
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   • content: The goal of the author is to have his readers never look at water the same way after reading this book. He has certainly achieved his objective and I doubt I will now ever be able to walk past a lake or even a pond without checking for surface patterns.
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   • content: This book is a treasure is in its un-ironic display of joyful curiosity, and its serious pursuit of this curiosity to knowledge that is a pleasure in itself.
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      May 23, 2016
      In this enthusiastic, if esoteric, volume, Gooley (The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs), a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Institute of Navigation, diagnoses humans with a lack of fascination with water and sets out to rectify this situation. He examines water in its various liquid forms, pointing readers toward the “physical clues, signs, and patterns to look for in water, whether you are standing by a puddle or gazing out across miles of ocean.” For example, Gooley identifies various types of puddles—including low-point, tracker, and navigator puddles—and reveals the reasons behind the ways they form, such as the ground beneath them, or the local flora and fauna. Similarly, he explains the differences among ripples, waves, and swells in larger bodies of water. Readers should be prepared for the occasional technical discussion, as when Gooley gives a rundown of the individual layers of water in a lake—epilimnion, thermocline, hypolimnion—and outlines an experiment readers can do at home to further explore them. The minutiae may turn off some readers, but avid and budding outdoorspeople will appreciate Gooley’s breadth of knowledge and accessible approach to his subject. Agent: Sophie Hicks, Sophie Hicks Agency.

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      June 1, 2016
      

      In this engaging field guide, Gooley (The Natural Navigator), who has more than two decades of outdoor expertise, describes how readers can train themselves to look at water in a different way in order to learn about their surroundings. Using experience gained from his remarkable travel expeditions around the world, the author demonstrates how simple signs in the landscape can reveal if water is nearby, in both the city and the country; how to read ripples to find calm spots; and what it means when water changes color. From the shallowest puddle to the deepest ocean, water is in constant communication with its environment. Gooley has tapped into that language and shares his findings here. With the help of this book, and with careful attention and observation, anyone can learn how to interpret the messages water offers to aid in everything from navigation to weather forecasting. VERDICT A riveting and highly accessible book that will appeal to water enthusiasts and nature lovers of all kinds.--Venessa Hughes, Buffalo, NY

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"Equal parts alfresco inspiration, interesting factoids, how-to instructions and self-help advice."—The Wall Street Journal

When most of us go for a walk, a single sense—sight—tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times–bestselling author and expert navigator Tristan Gooley goes for a walk, he uses all five senses to "read" everything nature has to offer. A single lowly weed can serve as his compass, calendar, clock, and even pharmacist.

In How to Read Nature, Gooley introduces readers to his world—where the sky, sea, and land teem with marvels. Plus, he shares 15 exercises to sharpen all of your senses. Soon you'll be making your own...

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