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Finding north : how navigation makes us human /

"Navigation is the key human skill. It's something we do everywhere, whether feeling our way through a bedroom in the dark, or charting a ship's course. But how does navigation affect our brains, our memory, ourselves? Blending scientific research and memoir, and written in beautiful...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foy, George (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Flatiron Books, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Foy, George > Family.
Michelson, Halvor, > -1844 > Death and burial.
Foy, George > Travel.
Navigation > History.
Navigation > Psychological aspects > History.
Navigation > Social aspects > History.
Ocean travel.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Adventurers & Explorers.
TRANSPORTATION > Navigation.
Table of Contents:
  • Fear
  • The Stavanger Paquet
  • Birds, memory, and London taxis
  • Modeling Halvor
  • At the shrine of the navigation gods
  • The "exploration" gene
  • Adventures in the GPS trade
  • Stellar screw-up
  • Sex and navigation
  • Bad latitude
  • Colorado : the dark heart of GPS
  • Searching the chart
  • Odysseus in Haiti
  • Launch
  • The downside of cybernav
  • At sea
  • Navigate or die?
  • The sail, and the story of the sail
  • The politics of navigation
  • Halvor's wedding
  • Finding north.