Tristan Gooley

A writer and natural navigator

Have you ever wanted to know how to use trees as a compass? How you can tell the time using the stars? Why cafés are only on one side of the street? And which butterflies tell you how far it is to the pub?

 In Tristan Gooley’s illustrated talk on his brilliant new book, The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs, you will learn how to turn every walk into a rewarding game of detection.The Sunday Times wrote of The Walker’s Guide: “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… If a trek with Gooley himself might be daunting, his book vastly repays any time spent with it. Above all, its joy in deduction is infectiously delightful.”

Tristan set up his natural navigation school in 2008 and is the author of the award-winning The Natural Navigator (2010) and Sunday Times Bestselling The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs (2014), two of the world’s only books covering natural navigation.

He has written for the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the BBC, The Financial Times and many other periodicals, and has appeared on TV and radio programmes in the UK and internationally, including The Today Programme, Night Waves, Countryfile and BBC Stargazing Live.
 
Tristan has led expeditions in five continents, climbed mountains in Europe, Africa and Asia, sailed small boats across oceans and piloted small aircraft to Africa and the Arctic. He has walked with and studied the methods of the Tuareg, Bedouin and Dayak in some of the remotest regions on Earth.
 
He is the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed singlehanded across the Atlantic and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society.

http://www.naturalnavigator.com/tristan-gooley