The lost art of finding our way /

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Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What else 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 navigation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huth, John Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Navigation > History.
Naval art and science > History.
Navigation > Histoire.
TRANSPORTATION > Navigation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Naval art and science
Navigation
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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