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005			20240726105333.0
008			130805s2013 mauab ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780674074811 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aVK15 _b.L678 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHuth, John Edward, _e1
245	1	0	_aThe lost art of finding our way /John Edward Huth.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (528 pages) : _billustrations, maps
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
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505	0	0	_aBefore the bubble -- _tMaps in the mind -- _tOn being lost -- _tDead reckoning -- _tUrban myths of navigation -- _tMaps and compasses -- _tStars -- _tThe sun and the moon -- _tWhere heaven meets earth -- _tLatitude and longitude -- _tRed sky at night -- _tReading the waves -- _tSoundings and tides -- _tCurrents and gyres -- _tSpeed and stability of hulls -- _tAgainst the wind -- _tFellow wanderers -- _tBaintabu's story.
520	0		_aLong 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.
520	0		_aLong 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 sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and "read" waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth's compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.
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650		0	_aNavigation _xHistory.
650		0	_aNaval art and science _xHistory.
650		4	_aGeneral Interest.
650		4	_aNatural Sciences.
650		4	_aNaval art and science _vHistory.
650		4	_aNavigation _vHistory.
650		4	_aTextbooks, Reference Books Natural Sciences.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell