The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop (Hardback)

Tristan Gooley (author)

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Hardback 384 Pages / Published: 08/04/2021

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The author of How to Read Water returns with another revelatory guide, this time highlighting the oft-neglected signs that reveal how the weather is changing and adapting.

The weather changes as we walk around a tree or turn down a street. There is a secret world of weather - one that we all live in, but very few see.

Each day we pass dozens of small weather signs that reveal what the weather is doing all around us - and what is about to happen. The clues are easy to spot when you know how, but remain invisible to most people.

In The Secret World of Weather you'll discover the simple rules that explain the weather signs. And you'll learn rare skills that enhance every minute you spend outdoors, whether you are in a town, on a beach or in a wilder spot.

As the author of the international bestsellers The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs and How to Read Water, Tristan Gooley knows how to de-code the phenomena and signs to look for. As he says, 'I want you to get to know these signs as I have, as characters. By studying their habits and behaviours, the signs come to life and the meaning reveals itself. From this flows an ability to read what is happening and what is about to happen'.

This is the ultimate guide to exploring an undiscovered world, one that hides in front of our eyes.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529339550
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 580 g
Dimensions: 218 x 162 x 40 mm

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'The Secret World of Weather frames itself early on as an aid to forecasting, by decoding signs in mackerel skies and dust devils. But it's really much more than that. It's about the ecology of weather, how the movement of the air and the heat of the sun negotiate with the forms of hill and tree and building to generate the most wondrous variety of phenomena. Metereodi-versity, you might call it... Gooley is the best kind of teacher: gentle, patient, nudging.' - Richard Mabey, Daily Telegraph

'Gooley marshals a riveting compendium of weather-reading skills... he has plenty of facts at his fingertips with which to excite.' - The Times

'This breezy new book reveals how to read nature's very own weather forecast... full of fascinating trivia.' - Daily Mail

'I would recommend this book to all who seek explanations of the incredible variety of natural sights and sounds detectable in the open air.' - Weather (Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society)

Tristan Gooley

An author and natural navigator, Tristan Gooley is a pioneer of natural navigation and has written some of the only books on the subject. A Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society, he is the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed singlehanded across the Atlantic. Tristan Gooley is the author of number of bestselling guides and works of natural history including: The Natural Navigator, The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs, How to Read Water and Wild Signs and Star Paths, some of the world’s only books covering natural navigation.

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