The New York Times has run a story about two star compass methods that I have published for the first time in The Hidden Seasons.
I can’t share the whole story for copyright reasons, but it is available here (behind a paywall). In a nutshell, The Hidden Seasons book contains two star compass techniques that I don’t believe have appeared in writing at any point in human history. They are simple, powerful methods for finding south that I have enjoyed using many times but have never come across elsewhere. Like much of my work, I don’t claim discovery, merely rediscovery – these methods were doubtless once known and used by our ancestors, albeit before written records were common.
The New York Times’ journalist, Joshua Sokol:
“By now, it should seem like there is nothing new under the billions of suns that make up the night sky that could help people navigate in the dark. But a British author, Tristan Gooley, writes in a new book about following the environmental signs throughout the year, “The Hidden Seasons,” that he has identified a new pair of hacks to find one’s way through the world by starlight…”
