The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues (Natural Navigation)
by Tristan Gooley
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"We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the waythat water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, you can find Sirius due south in the night sky? And have you seen the poetic 'shadow compasses' butterflies make on the hottest days, as they align their wings with the sun, their thin shadows pointing the way north? The sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, show more animals, water, and weather all tell us secrets about the seasons--if we know how to read their clues. In this ... book, ... Tristan Gooley reimagines the seasonal calendar not as fourdistinct phases but as a series of changes evolving moment by moment every day of the year"-- show lessTags
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Tristan Gooley, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Read Water and The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, has led expeditions on five continents, climbed mountains in three, and is the only living person to have both Mown and sailed solo across the Atlantic. His more than two decades of pioneering outdoor experience include research among show more tribal peoples in some of the remotest regions on Earth. show less
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