TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huth,John Edward
TI  - The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
SN  - 9780674074811
AV  - VK15 
U1  - 629.04509 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Navigation-History
KW  - Naval art and science-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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