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A New York Times Bestseller
A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016

Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian—with a little help from expert navigator Tristan Gooley, New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs

In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley helped readers reconnect with nature by finding direction from the trees, stars, clouds, and more. Now, he turns his attention to our most abundant—yet perhaps least understood—resource.

Distilled from his far-flung adventures—sailing solo across the Atlantic, navigating with Omani tribespeople, canoeing in Borneo, and walking in his own backyard—Gooley shares hundreds of techniques in How to Read Water. Readers will:
  • Find north using puddles
  • Forecast the weather from waves
  • Decode the colors of ponds
  • Spot dangerous water in the dark
  • Decipher wave patterns on beaches, and more!

ISBN-13: 9781615193585

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: The Experiment

Publication Date: 08-23-2016

Pages: 400

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.40(d)

New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley has led expeditions on five continents, climbed mountains in three, and is the only living person to have both flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic. His more than two decades of pioneering outdoor experience include research among tribal peoples in some of the remotest regions on Earth.

Table of Contents

Strange Beginnings: An Introduction 1

1 Launching 14

2 How to See the Pacific in a Pond 23

3 Land Ripples 37

4 The Not-So-Humble Puddle 48

5 Rivers and Streams 64

6 The Rise 94

7 The Lake 115

8 The Color of Water 129

9 Light and Water 144

10 The Sound of Water 159

11 Reading Waves 174

12 The Omani Delight: An Interlude 206

13 The Coast 219

14 The Beach 243

15 Currents and Tides 266

16 Water at Night 296

17 Shipwatching 320

18 Rare and Extraordinary 337

19 Uncharted Water: An Epilogue 353

Sources, Notes, and Further Reading 362

Selected Bibliography 372

Acknowledgments 375

Picture Acknowledgments 377

Index 379

About the Author 394