Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation (Revised) - Softcover

Gurney, Alan

 
9780393327137: Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation (Revised)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393327132 ISBN 13: 9780393327137
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compass--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 accuracy--even 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 page-turning history of man's search for reliable navigation of treacherous sea routes around the globe, Alan Gurney brings to life the instrument Victor Hugo called "the soul of the ship."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alan Gurney was a former yacht designer and photographer. His books include Compass, The Race to the White Continent, and Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica: 1699-1839.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393327132
ISBN 13 
9780393327137
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
322
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