Description
Tristan Gooley is an author and natural navigator who set up his natural navigation school in 2008 and is the author of award-winning and internationally bestselling books, some of which are the world’s only books covering natural navigation. He has led expeditions in five continents, climbed mountains in Europe, Africa and Asia, sailed small boats across oceans and piloted small aircraft to Africa and the Arctic. He has walked with and studied the methods of the Tuareg, Bedouin and Dayak in some of the remotest regions on Earth. He is also the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed singlehanded across the Atlantic and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society. In 2020 he was awarded the Harold Spencer-Jones Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of Navigation – the Institute’s highest award, given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to navigation. He has spent decades hunting for clues and signs in nature, across the globe, and has been nicknamed “The Sherlock Holmes of Nature” by the BBC. He has written for the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and many magazines; given talks across the world and appeared on TV and radio programmes in the UK and internationally
