How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
Tristan Gooley
May 2023 · Bolinda · Narrated by Tristan Gooley
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In his singular, eye-opening books about the overlooked layers of the natural world – including The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and The Natural Navigator – Tristan Gooley helps listeners reconnect with nature by finding direction and searching for hidden clues in stars, clouds, water and more. Now, he turns his attention to perhaps nature’s most beloved feature – the stately, majestic tree. Every single tree tells us an epic story – if we know how to read it! Here you’ll discover hundreds of astonishing secrets hiding in plain sight among the living network of branches, trunks, roots, bark, leaves, buds, flowers, stumps and more. A pale line down the centre of a leaf indicates that water is nearby; a touch of reddish or purple bark signals new growth; low-growing, young branches reveal that a tree is struggling to survive. Tapping into this silent language of trees sharpens our understanding of the environment. To read a tree is to paint a whole new and vivid portrait of the surrounding land, soil, weather, animals, people and even time. You’ll never see a tree the same way again.
In his singular, eye-opening books about the overlooked layers of the natural world – including The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and The Natural Navigator – Tristan Gooley helps listeners reconnect with nature by finding direction and searching for hidden clues in stars, clouds, water and m...
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Tristan Gooley is a writer, navigator and explorer. He has led expeditions on five continents, spent time with the Tuareg, Bedouin and Dayak in some of the remotest places on Earth and pioneered a renaissance in the rare art of natural navigation. Tristan is the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed single-handed across the Atlantic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Institute of Navigation and Vice Chairman of the UK's largest independent travel company, Trailfinders. He lives in West Sussex.
Tristan Gooley is a writer, navigator and explorer. He has led expeditions on five continents, spent time with the Tuareg, Bedouin and Dayak in some of the remotest places on Earth and pioneered a renaissance in the rare art of natural navigation. Tristan is the only living person to have both fl...
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