Sextant | David Barrie | Paperback
Impuestos incluidos
Before satellite navigation, finding a ship’s position depended on observation, calculation and instruments handled on a moving deck. David Barrie takes the sextant as his starting point for a history of celestial navigation, asking how a relatively small instrument helped mariners chart oceans and undertake voyages far beyond the sight of land.
His own Atlantic passage provides a personal thread through accounts of explorers and sailors including Cook, Vancouver, Shackleton and Worsley. The result connects the development of navigational knowledge with the experience of putting it to use. For readers interested in historic charts, exploration and seamanship, this paperback makes the science behind a plotted position part of a much larger human story.
Book Details
- Author: David Barrie
- Full title: Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9780007516582
- Publication date: 04/06/2015
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