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Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World´s Oceans
David Barrie
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Description for Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World´s Oceans
Paperback. In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBTM; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's `Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. This is the dramatic story of an instrument that changed history. Built around David Barrie's own transatlantic passage using the very same navigational tools as Captain Cook, Sextant tells how one of the most vital navigational instruments ... Read more
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's `Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. This is the dramatic story of an instrument that changed history. Built around David Barrie's own transatlantic passage using the very same navigational tools as Captain Cook, Sextant tells how one of the most vital navigational instruments ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007516582
SKU
V9780007516582
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About David Barrie
David Barrie was for many years in the Diplomatic Service. He has held many distinguished posts since then. He is a passionate and dedicated sailor and was inspired to write this book in homage to the remarkable people who brought celestial navigation to perfection, and to the generations of mariners who put the sextant to such good use in charting ... Read more
Reviews for Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World´s Oceans
`As lovingly and painstakingly constructed as the navigators' one irreplaceable talisman, this exquisite book is a hymn to a now-vanishing feature of maritime life, a finely-chased reminder of just how much we all owe to that one small piece of apparatus, its verniers and lenses kept secure in a mahogany box, closed by a hasp of brass' Simon Winchester ... Read more