The skill itself
Learn
Read the cues a landscape gives and name the country. Come back to what's about to fade. Keep track of how you're going — on this device, and only if you turn it on.
Test your eye
You're shown the cues a landscape gives — the soil, the water, the plants, the lie of the land. Read them, name the country, and learn why. It gets harder.
Here's the move
You read the signs
- Soft grey mud that smells of sulphur underfoot
- Thousands of pencil-thin roots standing straight up out of the mud
- A band of low dark trees growing in the tidal mud
…and name the country
A tidal mangrove flat in the estuary
That's one landscape. The real test hides the answer — you call it, then find out why.
Pick your level the climb goes Onlooker → Interpreter
Every landscape here is a real reading grounded in the book — follow a guided pathway or browse the guides if you'd rather learn first, then come back.
Today's reading
A short set that brings back what you're on the edge of forgetting — and adds a little new ground. The trick isn't cramming; it's returning, just as the memory is about to fade.
Today's reading builds from what you've read and answered, spaced so it sticks. Turn tracking on to start your daily set — it's kept on this device only, nothing is sent anywhere.
Just here to browse?
In season now
What the coast is doing this month — dated guides you can go and read against.
Your reading
Turn tracking on and this becomes a picture of your learning — the reading ladder you're climbing rung by rung, the six worlds of the gradient lighting up as you read each one, and a quiet nudge when something's due for another look.
It all stays on this device. Nothing leaves your phone, and there's no account to make — turn it off any time and it's gone.
Kept on this device only.
The reading ladder
The gradient you can read
Each world lights up when you've read one of its landscapes right.