More reading of natural runes – its subtitle gives the game away: ‘How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop’. He doesn’t go so far as the use of lakes for oracular purposes in Tibet but that would seem the logical next step.
The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop
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Edition:Hardback978152933955008/04/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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