Compass

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.

המשפט הראשון: 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.

שנה

2004

שפה

English

הוצאה

W. W. Norton & Company

מהדורות

6

עמודים

288

ISBN

9780393050738

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata