The lost art of finding our way / John Edward Huth

Author:: Huth, John Edward
Published:: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:: 528 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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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.

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ISBN:

9780674072824 (alk. paper) and 0674072820 (alk. paper)

Note:

AUTH: HARVARD UNIVERSITY. HISTORY OF NAVIGATING BYSTARS, MOVEMENT OF THE SEA, ETC.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2013

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