29 August 2010 by Tristan Gooley
Tom Vanderbilt, the journalist and best-selling author of ‘Traffic‘, flew over from the States to join me in Dartmoor last week for a taste of natural navigation in the wild.
His account will be appearing in the US magazine, ‘Outside‘, in due course so I won’t spoil the fun here, but I will write it up and publish it on this website once Tom’s Outside article has run. Suffice to say that Dartmoor did not pull any punches and a meteorologically intense time was enjoyed.
The Natural Navigator book is being published in the US on 1st January 2011.
Tags: author, dartmoor, navigating using nature, navigation book, Outside magazine, Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic, wild places |
29 April 2009 by Tristan Gooley
Recovering from a full and fun day filming with Jules Hudson and the team from the BBC’s Countryfile program. We were out on the South Downs and I spent the first two-thirds of the day teaching Jules some of the methods for navigating using nature and then ‘released him into the wild’ with a tricky challenge. If you’d like to know whether Jules managed to find his way using nature then it is being shown on BBC1 this Sunday evening (03 May) at 7.30pm.
I learnt plenty on the day too, Jules was an archaeologist by trade and a passionate historian, before becoming a presenter and his view of the landscape is similarly analytical to mine, but his senses are used to scouring for slightly different details. I learnt about how Wellington used to read the land in front of him, about hill forts and burial methods amongst many…
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Tags: BBC, Countryfile, find, Jules Hudson, navigating using nature, using nature to navigate, way |
