How to Read a Tree: Clues & Patterns from Roots to Leaves

Gooley, T.

ISBN 10: 1529339596 / ISBN 13: 9781529339598

Verlag: Sceptre, 2023

Beschreibung

320, 16 plates with col photos, b/w illus. 350x218mm. HB. NEW. . Do two trees ever appear identical? No, but why? Every small difference is a clue.Each tree we meet is filled with signs that reveal secrets about the life of that tree and the landscape we stand in. The clues are easy to spot when you know what to look for, but remain invisible to most people.In How to Read a Tree, you ll discover the simple principles that explain the shapes and patterns you can see in trees and what they mean. And you ll learn rare skills that can be applied every time you pass a tree, whether you are in a town or a wilder spot.As the author of the international bestsellers The Walker s Guide and How to Read Water, Tristan Gooley knows how to uncover the phenomena worth looking for. He has been instructing people in the art of reading trees for two decades and this book includes signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.Once you have learned to see these things it is impossible to unsee them. We will never look at a tree the same way again. It was a lightbulb moment! I thought I knew my local woods I walk there almost every day. But it s a thrill to see it through fresh eyes, to develop a much deeper understanding. Peter Gibbs, Chair of BBC Gardeners Question Time Wherever you are city or wilderness if you want to understand the secrets of trees you pass, this is the book to read…Tristan has the rare gift of explaining the most complex ideas with humour and deep insight. Peter Thomas, Emeritus Reader in Plant Ecology at Keele University, author of Trees This book will add a new dimension to your countryside stroll. Wanderlust. [9781529339598]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers N54116

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Titel: How to Read a Tree: Clues & Patterns from ...

Verlag: Sceptre

Erscheinungsdatum: 2023

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: New

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Ten feet from the door there is a mature and impressive beech tree. I have seen this tree many thousands of times and touched it many hundreds... One spring morning I set myself a challenge...Were there any interesting features on this one beech that I hadn't noticed before?

Looking at the trees around his house, Tristan Gooley realises how little he has noticed, or even really seen them. He decides to embark journey, to investigate the signs that can be read from trees and everything about them that we often overlook.

Tristan takes the reader on a series on micro-expeditions to uncover the signs to look for in each tree. In each journey he highlights at least one exemplary sign or pattern; from the everyday to the more exotic, from Kew Gardens in London to the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Alongside his own observations, insights and deductions, he also meets a variety of experts and draws their wisdom out. He not only reveals the tree signs, but also allows other colourful and intriguing insights to feed in to the narrative.
We will never look at a tree the same way again.

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Tristan Gooley is the award-winning and international bestselling author of titles such as The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs, How to Read Water and How to Read a Tree. Through his journeys, teaching and writing, he has pioneered a renaissance in the rare art of natural navigation.

Tristan is the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed singlehanded across the Atlantic. He has explored close to home and walked with and studied the methods of tribal peoples in some of the remotest regions on Earth.