Nicknamed the ‘Sherlock Holmes of Nature’, natural navigator Tristan Gooley talks to Carol Donaldson about his new book The Hidden Seasons, in which he shows us how to read clues we continually miss and inspires us to explore nature’s signs – the sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather and how they all reflect seasonal changes back to us. The seasons will never look, sound or smell the same again...

Tristan Gooley is author of The Natural Navigator (2010); The Natural Explorer (2013); The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs (2015); How to Read Water (2016); Wild Signs and Star Paths (2018); The Secret World of Weather (2022); How to Read a Tree (2023).

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