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How to Read a Tree with Tristan Gooley

Date: 11th April, 2023
Location: Steyning Methodist Church

Join author and natural navigator Tristan Gooley for an evening exploring the secret life of trees, as he celebrates the release of his new book How to Read a Tree
Tristan Gooley has been instructing people in the art of natural navigation, including reading trees, for two decades.  During this fascinating evening, Tristan will share the simple principles that explain the shapes and patterns you can see in trees and what they mean. We will learn rare skills that can be applied every time we pass a tree, and learn why no 2 trees are EVER identical. You’ll never look at a tree the same way again! 
A mesmerising book … Gooley drops learning as lightly as blossom falls in spring.’ – John Lewis-Stempel
ABOUT TRISTAN GOOLEY
Tristan set up his natural navigation school in 2008 and is the author of the award-winning The Natural NavigatorThe Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues & SignsHow to Read Water, and Wild Signs and Star Paths.  He has written for the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the BBC, The Financial Times and many other periodicals. 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. 
ABOUT THE EVENT
Doors open 7pm. Talk starts 7.30pm. A talk plus Q and A by Tristan Gooley, followed by book-signing. Copies of all Tristan’s books will be on sale. Tickets: £17 book & ticket, includes a hardback copy of How to Read a Tree / £7 Ticket only (option to buy book on the night, ticket gives £7 off book RRP of £20)

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