The lost art of reading nature's signs : use outdoor clues to find your way, predict the weather, locate water, track animals--and other forgotten skills
Presents a compendium of information and forecasting details that can be gathered from observations about plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, clouds, stars, sun, and the moon. --Publisher's description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781615192410
- ISBN: 1615192417
- ISBN: 9781615192427
- Physical Description: xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : The Experiment, [2015]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published in Great Britain in 2014 as The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs: Their Meaning and the Art of Making Predictions and Deductions by Sceptre." "First printing, July 2015"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-381) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Getting started -- Ground -- Trees -- Plants -- Mosses, algae, fungi and lichens -- A walk with rocks and wildflowers -- Sky and weather -- Stars -- Sun -- Moon -- A night walk -- Animals -- A walk with the Dayak part I -- City, town and village -- A city walk with invisible snakes -- Coast, rivers and lakes -- Snow and sand -- A walk with the Dayak part II -- Rare and extraordinary -- The breakthrough -- Your invisible toolbox. |
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Genre: | Handbooks and manuals. Handbooks and manuals. Nonfiction. |
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Homer Public Library | 796.5 GOO (Text) | 000146529 | Nonfiction | Available | - |