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  • How to Read a Tree

  • Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
  • By: Tristan Gooley
  • Narrated by: Tristan Gooley
  • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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How to Read a Tree

By: Tristan Gooley
Narrated by: Tristan Gooley
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Publisher's summary

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.
©2023 Tristan Gooley (P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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Critic reviews

'You will never look at a tree in the same way again after reading this mesmerising book. Gooley drops learning as lighty as blossom falls in spring.' (John Lewis Stemple)
'Tristan Gooley has done trees the greatest service.' (Isabella Tree, award-winning author of Wilding and travel writer)

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Good read if you love being in nature...7 more words will not change my message.

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Lots of Good Information

This book is best read through with a hard copy and not as an audio. Too much information delivered quickly!

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