Sextant : a voyage guided by the stars and the men who mapped the world's oceans
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Sextant : a voyage guided by the stars and the men who mapped the world's oceans
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Barrie, David, author.
ISBN:
9780007516568
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London :
William Collins,
2014.
©2014
Physical Description:
348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Setting Sail -- ch. 2 First Sight -- ch. 3 The Origins of the Sextant -- ch. 4 Bligh's Boat Journey -- ch. 5 Anson's Ordeals -- ch. 6 The Marine Chronometer -- ch. 7 Celestial Timekeeping -- ch. 8 Captain Cook Charts the Pacific -- ch. 9 Bougainville in the South Seas -- ch. 10 La Perouse Vanishes -- ch. 11 The Travails of George Vancouver -- ch. 12 Flinders -- Coasting Australia -- ch. 13 Flinders -- Shipwreck and Captivity -- ch. 14 Voyages of the Beagle -- ch. 15 Slocum Circles the World -- ch. 16 Endurance -- ch. 17 `These are men' -- ch. 18 Two Landfalls.
Abstract:
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.
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Amador County Library.
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