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Back to nature

Tristan Gooley is on the path to becoming a national treasure. What started as a somewhat offbeat idea to harness his passion for using nature itself to help you to navigate has snowballed into a strong following and ensured that books such as How to Read Water and The Natural Navigator were big hits. Now Tristan is back with a new book; The Secret World of Weather. As you might imagine, it’s a book that chimes strongly for all sailors and it is therefore no surprise that Tristan is himself as keen sailor and this helped shape his course from adventurer and wanderer to successful author.

“There was a moment of enlightenment in my childhood when we went to Bembridge for a holiday and

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