The 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 / Tristan Gooley ; illustrations by Neil Gower ; with editorial contributions by Marc Williams.
| Author/creator | Gooley, Tristan author. |
| Other author | Gower, Neil illustrator. |
| Other author | Williams, Marc writer of supplementary textual content. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Experiment, 2015. |
| Description | xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Walker's guide to outdoor clues and signs |
| Contents | Getting started -- Ground -- Trees -- Plants -- Mosses, algae, fungi and lichens -- A walk with rocks and wildflowers -- Sky and weather -- Stars -- Sun -- Moon -- A night walk -- Animals -- A walk with the Dayak part I -- City, town and village -- A city walk with invisible snakes -- Coast, rivers and lakes -- Snow and sand -- A walk with the Dayak part II -- Rare and extraordinary -- The breakthrough -- Your invisible toolbox. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | "First published in Great Britain in 2014 as The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs: Their Meaning and the Art of Making Predictions and Deductions by Sceptre." |
| General note | "First printing, July 2015" -- Title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-381) and index. |
| Related Item | Originally published as: Gooley, Tristan. Walker's guide to outdoor clues and signs. London : Sceptre, 2014 9781444780086 |
| Genre/form | Handbooks and manuals. |
| Genre/form | Handbooks and manuals. |
| LCCN | 2014041221 |
| ISBN | 9781615192410 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1615192417 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |