Lost Art of Finding Our Way

Name: Lost Art of Finding Our Way
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ISBN: 9780674072824

ISBN-10: 0674072820

ISBN-13: 9780674072824

Edition: 2013

Authors: John Edward Huth

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Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death.Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fogbank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/3/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 520
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.41" long x 1.57" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

John Edward Huth is Donner Professor of Science in the Physics Department at Harvard University.