How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed

2017 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner

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!

Tristan Gooley is the New York Times-bestselling author of How to Read Water, How to Read Nature, The Natural Navigator, The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, The Secret World of Weather, The Nature Instinct, How to Read a Tree, and The Hidden Seasons . He 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. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society, a vice-chairman of Trailfinders, and he runs the world's only school of natural navigation.

Review Quotes:

"A superior book [with] 15 get-the-heck-outside exercises intended to spur readers down the path of observation. . . . A wondrous, veritable how-to guide for 'waking up.'"--Library Journal

"The Sherlock Holmes of nature."--BBC