The lost art of finding our way /
| Main Author: | Huth, John Edward. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Call Number: | VK15 .H87 2013 |
| Institution: | Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak |
| Library: | Main Library |
| Record Id / ISBN-0: | ppap.54009 / 9780674072824 (hardcover) |
| Online Public Access Catalog: | Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2013.
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Table of 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.