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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (539 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674074811
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Lost Art of Finding Our WayDDC classification:
  • 629.04509
LOC classification:
  • VK15
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Before the Bubble -- 2. Maps in the Mind -- 3. On Being Lost -- 4. Dead Reckoning -- 5. Urban Myths of Navigation -- 6. Maps and Compasses -- 7. Stars -- 8. The Sun and the Moon -- 9. Where Heaven Meets Earth -- 10. Latitude and Longitude -- 11. Red Sky at Night -- 12. Reading the Waves -- 13. Soundings and Tides -- 14. Currents and Gyres -- 15. Speed and Stability of Hulls -- 16. Against the Wind -- 17. Fellow Wanderers -- 18. Baintabu's Story -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative--part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history--brings our own world into sharper view.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Before the Bubble -- 2. Maps in the Mind -- 3. On Being Lost -- 4. Dead Reckoning -- 5. Urban Myths of Navigation -- 6. Maps and Compasses -- 7. Stars -- 8. The Sun and the Moon -- 9. Where Heaven Meets Earth -- 10. Latitude and Longitude -- 11. Red Sky at Night -- 12. Reading the Waves -- 13. Soundings and Tides -- 14. Currents and Gyres -- 15. Speed and Stability of Hulls -- 16. Against the Wind -- 17. Fellow Wanderers -- 18. Baintabu's Story -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative--part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history--brings our own world into sharper view.

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