(Ebook free) Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
❀ David Barrie ❀
| #474244 in Books | David Barrie | 2015-05-05 | 2015-05-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.90 x5.31l,.0 | File Name: 0062279351 | 384 pages | Sextant A Young Man s Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World s Oceans
||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating Sailing Adventure and History of Navigation and Great Explorations.|By Esteban Ess|This book, "Sextant" was a highly enjoyable read. I have a few years of sailing experience, but never learned to use a sextant and did not appreciate how it originated and how to navigate by the stars, sun and moon using a sextant. Most sailors today use their GPS or other electro||“As lovingly and painstakingly constructed as the navigators’ one irreplaceable talisman, David Barrie’s 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 s
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes this dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and to the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.
Barrie takes readers straight to the helm of some of history's most important expeditions, interweaving these heroic tales with the account of his own transatlantic passage as a young man. A...
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