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    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 / Tristan Gooley ; illustrations by Neil Gower.

    By: Gooley, Tristan [author.]Contributor(s): Gower, Neil [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The Experiment, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781615193585; 1615193588Subject(s): Water | SPORTS & RECREATION -- Walking | TRAVEL -- Essays & Travelogues | NATURE -- Sky Observation | WaterAdditional physical formats: Online version:: How to read water.DDC classification: 551.46 LOC classification: GB671 | .G66 2016
    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.
    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.
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    "Originally published in the UK by Sceptre in 2016"--Copyright page.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-374) and index.

    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.

    "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.

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