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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tristan GooleyPublisher: The Experiment LLC Imprint: The Experiment LLC Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.417kg ISBN: 9781615190294ISBN 10: 1615190295 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 February 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsDispensing with all navigational technology, Gooley aims to reconnect his audience with the natural world by teaching it to stay on course without instruments. He allows one exception, a stick. One can deduce true north from the shadow it casts, which is just one of many ways to fix the cardinal directions that Gooley presents in this companionable guide. Enriching his instruction with references to all sorts of mythical and historical navigators, Gooley stresses careful observation of one 's surroundings as the foundation for his methods of orientation. Trees, moss, even puddles contain clues. The navigational trick is to deduce the order that they reveal, such as the direction of prevailing winds, about an environment 's seemingly chaotic appearance. Looking up to celestial orbs sun, moon, planets, and stars Gooley explains ways to detect their regularity and apply it on treks over land and voyages across the sea. Whatever scale of adventure readers intend, from a local hike to a tri This in-depth book gives us the tools to reengage with our natural world in a clear and understandable way. I love it! <br> Bear Grylls, author of The Kid Who Climbed Everest and Man vs. Wild <br> The perfect book for getting you started on your own adventure <br> Sir Ranulph Fiennes, adventurer and author of Race to the Pole <br> The Natural Navigator is a wonderfully stimulating book. Tristan Gooley sidesteps technology to celebrate our own powers of observation, and suggests that the art of natural navigation is something we should never have forgotten. <br> Michael Palin <br> Before GPSes, people navigated by the stars, the wind and shadows on the ground. Tristan Gooley, an English adventurer, shows how it 's done in The Natural Navigator . . . This fascinating book is filled with surprising facts. <br> Washington Post <br> Gooley, a longtime adventurer who teaches what he calls natural navigation, has compiled an intriguing trove of tips and tricks from cul Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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