Nature Is Your Guide: How To Find Your Way On Land And Sea
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before GPS, before compasses became commonplace, there was the natural world — and for those who knew how to read it, the earth itself was the most reliable navigator of all. Nature is Your Guide: How to find your way on land and sea by Harold Gatty is a masterful practical manual that instructs readers in the ancient art of natural navigation, teaching how to orient oneself using the sun, stars, wind, waves, vegetation, and animal behaviour across any terrain or ocean. Gatty, a celebrated Australian navigator who famously guided Wiley Post on a record-breaking round-the-world flight in 1931, draws on a lifetime of hard-won experience to present a guide that is as scientifically grounded as it is adventurous in spirit. The book argues passionately that modern humanity has lost touch with an intuitive relationship with the natural environment that indigenous peoples and ancient mariners once took for granted, and it sets out to restore that connection with clarity, authority, and quiet urgency. Gatty's prose is precise yet accessible, bridging the worlds of practical survival skill and natural philosophy in a way that few writers have managed before or since. Rich with observations drawn from cultures across the globe, this volume endures as a landmark work in the literature of wayfinding — one that leaves the reader looking at a rustling tree or a patch of ocean swell and wondering, for the first time, exactly what it is trying to say.
Author: Harold Gatty
Format: Paperback
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before GPS, before compasses became commonplace, there was the natural world — and for those who knew how to read it, the earth itself was the most reliable navigator of all. Nature is Your Guide: How to find your way on land and sea by Harold Gatty is a masterful practical manual that instructs readers in the ancient art of natural navigation, teaching how to orient oneself using the sun, stars, wind, waves, vegetation, and animal behaviour across any terrain or ocean. Gatty, a celebrated Australian navigator who famously guided Wiley Post on a record-breaking round-the-world flight in 1931, draws on a lifetime of hard-won experience to present a guide that is as scientifically grounded as it is adventurous in spirit. The book argues passionately that modern humanity has lost touch with an intuitive relationship with the natural environment that indigenous peoples and ancient mariners once took for granted, and it sets out to restore that connection with clarity, authority, and quiet urgency. Gatty's prose is precise yet accessible, bridging the worlds of practical survival skill and natural philosophy in a way that few writers have managed before or since. Rich with observations drawn from cultures across the globe, this volume endures as a landmark work in the literature of wayfinding — one that leaves the reader looking at a rustling tree or a patch of ocean swell and wondering, for the first time, exactly what it is trying to say.