CompassAlan Gurney
Compass
Alan Gurney · 2004
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A history of the compass describes its pivotal role in early shipping, relating how its development over the course of hundreds of years was marked by thousands of shipwrecks and the disastrous fates of sailors who misused it.
First sentence: The cry of''Breakers ahead!" was the first warning that the navigating officers had made a dreadful mistake in their dead reckoning, or, in the mordant Spanish equivalent, their navegacion de fantasia.
Book details
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 6
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780393050738
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