How to read water : clues and patterns from puddles to the sea : learn to gauge depth, navigate, forecast weather and make other predictions with water

Author

Tristan Gooley

Call Number

• 551.46 G6592 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : The Experiment, 2016.

Physical Description

393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm

Summary

"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,"--Amazon.com.

Notes

"Originally published in the UK by Sceptre in 2016." -- Copyright page.

Contents

• Strange beginnings: an introduction
• Launching
• How to see the Pacific in a pond
• Land ripples
• The not so humble puddle
• Rivers and streams
• The rise
• The lake
• The colour of water
• Light and water
• The sound of water
• Reading waves
• The Omani delight: an interlude
• The coast
• The beach
• Currents and tides
• Water at night
• Shipwatching
• Rare and extraordinary
• Uncharted water: an epilogue.