The Natural Navigator

Tristan Gooley, www.virginbooks.co.uk, £14.99, ISBN 978 1 90526 494 0

This is the perfect tool for those wishing to navigate via nature’s own waymarks. Try placing sticks in the ground to read the sun (the joined mark from two shadows of equal length form the perfect east-west line), or staring at puddles to ascertain their colour (green at one end reveals plant matter blown by a south-westerly wind). You can even find your way to the centre of the galaxy (aim for Sagittarius which looks a bit like a teapot). It’s a call to readers to discard their maps and sat-nav and become natural navigators, rebuilding the relationship with nature that modern society has lost.  Sarah Gardner