How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

Water carries signs and almost nobody reads them. Gooley works through puddles, ponds, rivers, and open sea: How ripple patterns reveal wind direction and depth, how eddies mark what’s under the surface, how the color of a wave says something about the bottom, why a river’s outer bend is deeper, how Pacific navigators steered by swell patterns felt through the hull, and how to tell tide from current. There’s a stretch on reading water at night by reflected light that’s worth the book on its own.