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The lost art of finding our way /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huth, John Edward
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Navigation > History.
Naval art and science > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Before the bubble
  • Maps in the mind
  • On being lost
  • Dead reckoning
  • Urban myths of navigation
  • Maps and compasses
  • Stars
  • The sun and the moon
  • Where heaven meets earth
  • Latitude and longitude
  • Red sky at night
  • Reading the waves
  • Soundings and tides
  • Currents and gyres
  • Speed and stability of hulls
  • Against the wind
  • Fellow wanderers
  • Baintabu's story.