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The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs

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6th March 2025

Price: £12.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444780109

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‘It’s like being given some sort of magical text… eye-opening and invaluable.’ -India Knight

From the author of Top 10 bestseller HOW TO READ A TREE the ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal – when you know what to look for.

Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs.

THE WALKER’S GUIDE is the result of Tristan Gooley’s two decades of pioneering outdoors experience and many years of instructing, researching and writing. It includes lots of outdoor clues and signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.

As well as the most comprehensive guide to natural navigation for walkers ever compiled, it also contains clues for weather forecasting, tracking, city walks, coast walks, night walks and dozens of other areas.

Reader reviews of THE WALKER’S GUIDE:
&#11088: ⭐ &#11088: &#11088: &#11088: ‘A delightfully rewarding book…Practically every page taught me something new’

&#11088: ⭐ &#11088: &#11088: &#11088 ‘Perfect gift idea for my partner who’s interested in anything outdoorsy and informational.’

&#11088: ⭐ &#11088: &#11088: &#11088 ‘Old knowledge, worth preserving, and worthy of knowing’.

Reviews

India Knight, Sunday Times Magazine
It's like being given some sort of magical text... eye-opening and invaluable.
James McConnachie, Sunday Times
In terms of sheer did-you-knows per page it is one of the richest, densest, most rewarding books on nature I have read in a long time...its joy in deduction is infectiously delightful.
Nicholas Crane
Learning so much in The Walker's Guide, the new book from Tristan Gooley, that I might have to take another long walk ...
Stephen Moss, Countryfile Magazine
I for one will never look at the British countryside in quite the same way again.
The Times
Gooley can show the most moonstruck how to interpret their surroundings. Even the intrepid Bear Grylls could learn a trick or two from this book.
The Royal Institute of Navigation
Anyone interested in walking out of doors at any time would be well advised to read this excellent book.
Jim Perrin, The Great Outdoors magazine
As with his earlier, equally important The Natural Navigator , this text is densely packed with information, engagingly and clearly written ... Every outdoor-lover should have at least one Tristan Gooley book in their library. He's attained national treasure status, as useful and educative as he is endearingly unique.