The Nature Instinct : Relearning Our Lost Intuition for the Inner Workings of the Natural World

';A captivating guide to finding one's way in the wild.'The Wall Street Journal

The culmination of everything Tristan Gooley has written so far: How to take what you learn about the outdoorsand make it second nature

Publishers note: The Nature Instinct was published in the UK under the title Wild Signs and Star Paths.

Readers of master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley have learned that the world is filled with clues to look forwe can use the Big Dipper to tell time, for example, and a budding flower to find south. But what about the innate survival instincts that told Gooley to move on one night, just as he was about to make camp? Everything looked perfect, but something felt wrong. When Gooley returned to his abandoned campsite to search for clues, there they were: All of the tree trunks were slightly bent. The ground had already shifted once in a stormand could easily shift again, becoming treacherous in heavy rain.

The Nature Instinct shows us how Gooley and other expert observersfrom hunters in the English countryside to the Pygmy people in the Congohave recovered and rekindled this lost ';sixth sense;' a subconscious,deeper understanding of our surroundings. By training ourselves through slow, careful observation, we too can unlock this kind of intuitionfor finding the forest's edge when deep in the woods, or knowing when a wild animal might pose dangerwithout even having to stop to think about it.