How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves (Natural Navigation) - Hardcover

Gooley, Tristan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1615199438 ISBN 13: 9781615199433

Publisher: Experiment, 2023

Synopsis

Trees are keen to tell us so much. They'll tell us about the land, the water, the people, the animals, the weather, and time. And they will tell us about their lives, the good bits and bad. Trees tell a story, but only to those who know how to read it.

In How to Read a Tree, Gooley uncovers the clues hiding in plain sight: in a tree's branches and leaves; its bark, buds, and flowers; even its stump. Leaves with a pale, central streak mean that water is nearby. Young, low-growing branches show that a tree is struggling. And reddish or purple bark signals new growth.

Like snowflakes, no two trees are exactly the same. Every difference reveals the epic story this tree has lived--if we stop to look closely.

About this title

About the Author

Tristan Gooley is the New York Times-bestselling author of How to Read a Tree, How to Read Water, How to Read Nature, The Natural Navigator, The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, The Secret World of Weather, and The Nature Instinct. He 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. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society, a vice-chairman of Trailfinders, and he runs the world's only school of natural navigation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Experiment
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615199438
• ISBN 13: 9781615199433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384