Sailing by Ravens.

Intro -- Contents -- North -- The Navigational Fix -- Horizon -- Captive -- Artifacts -- Desire Lines -- Desire is never on the map -- Barometer -- So Many Superstitions to Defy -- Heading for Town -- Body Memory -- What She Can't Say -- Correcting for Variation -- Correcting for Deviation -- What the Sea Takes, Gives Back -- Steer for the Light -- Because the sea never forgets -- West -- Hsui -- What Was Lost -- Wind Rose -- This World More Properly Resembles a Heart -- Mercator Writes His Epitaph -- Painting of John Harrison -- The Forestaff 1587 -- The Wounded Dog Theory: My Dog Responds -- The Statue of Flavio Gioia -- Bravo Ocean -- Cow Falling, Again -- Leap -- South -- Here Be Dragons -- Navigating the Body -- Terra Incognita -- Triangulate -- Deep Space -- Catenary -- Tied, Untied -- Flot sam -- Jetsam -- Horse Latitudes -- Equilibrate -- Adrift -- Existence Doubtful -- Melancholia: Rima Dissolutas -- She Speaks in Tongues -- East -- Lost -- Landlocked -- Dead Reckoning -- The Coriolis Effect -- She Dreams of Great Circle Sailing -- Boxing the Compass -- True North -- Working on Deck -- Eye Splice -- Sailing by Ravens -- Steering by Monarchs -- Reckoning, Again -- And the Universe Curved -- All the Unseen Forces -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

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