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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation by Alan Gurney (English) Paperbac
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- ISBN-13
- 9780393327137
- Book Title
- Compass
- ISBN
- 9780393327137
- Subject Area
- Marine Science
- Publication Name
- Compass: a Story of Exploration and Innovation
- Publisher
- Ww Norton & Co
- Subject
- Geography & Geosciences
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 203mm
- Item Width
- 137mm
- Item Weight
- 370g
- Number of Pages
- 322 Pages
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The fascinating and disaster-strewn history of the search to perfect the essential navigational device. This book chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger. From the time man first took to the seas until only one thousand years ago, sight and winds were the sailor's only navigational aids. It was not until the development of the compass that maps and charts could be used with any accuracyeven so, it would be hundreds of years and thousands of shipwrecks before the marvelous instrument was perfected. And its history up to modern times is filled with the stories of disasters that befell sailors who misused it. In this wonderfully written book, Alan Gurney brings to life the instrument Victor Hugo called the soul of the ship.
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Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-13
9780393327137
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Product Key Features
Subject Area
Marine Science
Publication Name
Compass: a Story of Exploration and Innovation
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
322 Pages
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Item Height
203mm
Item Width
137mm
Item Weight
370g
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Biographies & True Stories
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United States
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