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How to Read Water

By: Tristan Gooley
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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A must-have audiobook for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How to Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you.

From wild swimming in Sussex to wayfinding off Oman, via the icy mysteries of the Arctic, Tristan Gooley draws on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the secrets of ponds, puddles, rivers, oceans and more to show us all the skills we need to read the water around us.

You'll learn how to:

  • Interpret ponds like a Polynesian
  • Spot dangerous water in the pitch black with the help of a clock face
  • Read the sea like a Viking
  • Forecast the weather from waves
  • Find your way with puddles
  • Decipher wave patterns on beaches
  • Decode the colour of water
  • Unravel a river like an expert

Includes over 700 clues, signs and patterns.

©2016 Tristan Gooley (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing Ecosystems & Habitats Natural Resources Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Walking Water Sports Sports Polar Region Swimming Sailing
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This is a good book but they should really include a pdf with the illustrations from the print edition. There aren't that many, but you need them to understand what he's talking about.

Good, but illustrations?

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I’m hooked in Tristan’s writing. I’ll be reading everything he writes.There’s more here than learning about water. The book opens many portals in the natural world. Coastlines, Stars and river banks all mean something.

Water and Tristan are Fascinating.

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Thoroughly impressed with how much information is shared about water. Mr Gooley thoughts must be like Cumberbatch’s Sherlock with tons of info bubbles deciphering seemingly impossible clues. The physical book may be handier if it has illustrations.

Dripping with knowledge

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For a mariner, this book delivers so much more than I ever expected. The detailed descriptions of water, the environments, animals, types, colors and new vocabulary gave me a new outlook and understanding of the complexities of water that I never knew existed.

A fascinating and educational book

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This book is a knowledge base of its own. There is an entire world of water and it has its own ways. This book introduces you to it.

So much great knowledge

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I live on a sailboat and recommend this book to my sailing friends or anyone who likes the outdoors

Interesting book helpful educational

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This book had a lot of how-to's which might be better suited for print. The practical information and sea stories were definitely interesting, but I'm not sure if the audiobook provided the best value. Otherwise, it was kind of fun to listen to an American voice actor pronounce a slew of bespoke British towns and geographies.

Reasonably Interesting, Perhaps Better in Print

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As a fisherman, that’s been on my water all my life, this book opened up a whole New World. It’s amazing all the little important details you can miss if you don’t know what you’re looking at. Do you spell could be fascinating to someone who doesn’t spend much time on the water, but even more, so, even necessary, for those who do. Bravo!

Wish I read this earlier in life

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Exhausting discussion on water, wind and weather, what it looks like and what it means.
Ok for non sailors but has lots of technical details

The knowledge of the author

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Wonderful book. I found the book insightful and very easy to understand. Narration was wonderful as well.

So exciting

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