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The Natural NavigatorBy Tristan Gooley
Virgin, £14.99

This is where Tristan Gooley comes in. This book does away with technology, and even folds up any reliance on maps, and explains how to find your way around the world by relying on your senses of sight and smell (and, in one sea captain’s experience, taste) and on the indicators all around us, both natural and man-made.