The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Physics, Astronomy, Other Sciences, History
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Author: John Edward Huth ISBN: 9780674074835
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: May 15, 2013
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: John Edward Huth
ISBN: 9780674074835
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: May 15, 2013
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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 navigational history—brings our own world into sharper view.

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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 navigational history—brings our own world into sharper view.

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