Most of us walk straight past the evidence. Tristan Gooley has built a career on noticing it: the lean of a tree, the shape of a puddle, the colour of a cloud at dusk, each one a signpost for anyone who has learned the code.
A British writer and explorer, he founded his natural navigation school in 2008 and has since become the leading popular authority on finding your way without instruments. His research has taken him to the Dayak of Borneo and the Tuareg of the Sahara, and he has led expeditions on five continents. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society, and remains the only living person to have flown solo and sailed singlehanded across the Atlantic.
His books, among them The Natural Navigator, How to Read Water, The Secret World of Weather and How to Read a Tree, have sold in the millions and been translated into some twenty languages. The tone throughout is patient, precise and quietly companionable, closer to a walk with a knowledgeable friend than to any classroom.
9 hours and 35 minutes
