Books of Interest: How to Read Water by Tristan Gooley

Join our incredible Ocean Shores local Alex Suarez as she shares with you her book review of: "How to Read Water Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea" by Tristan Gooley
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More information about this fantastic book:
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 the “natural navigator”!
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!