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Sextant : A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage...by David Barrie (2014) HC/DJ 1ST/1ST
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- Estado
- En muy buen estado
- Notas del vendedor
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Bibliography, Index
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Era
- 2010s
- ISBN
- 9780062279347
- EAN
- 9780062279347
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062279343
ISBN-13
9780062279347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
171855369
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sextant : a Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Navigation, Aviation / History, Maritime History & Piracy, Expeditions & Discoveries, Astronomy
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Transportation, Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
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Reviews
Even for armchair adventurers with no sea legs to speak of, Barrie's Sextant is a compelling read., Beneath the book's calm surface churns a melancholic message about how the comfort of technology -- symbolized by the sextant's almighty antagonist, GPS -- has turned our gaze away from the stars., Beneath the book's calm surface churns a melancholic message about how the comfort of technology — symbolized by the sextant's almighty antagonist, GPS — has turned our gaze away from the stars., 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 small piece of apparatus, Beneath the book's calm surface churns a melancholic message about how the comfort of technology - symbolized by the sextant's almighty antagonist, GPS - has turned our gaze away from the stars.
Synopsis
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. Since its invention in 1759, a mariner's most prized possession has been the sextant. A navigation tool that measures the angle between a celestial object and the horizon, the sextant allowed sailors to pinpoint their exact location at sea. David Barrie chronicles the sextant's development and shows how it not only saved the lives of navigators in wild and dangerous seas, but played a pivotal role in their ability to map the globe. He synthesizes centuries of seafaring history and the daring sailors who have become legend, including James Cook, Matthew Flinders, Robert Fitz-Roy, Frank Worsley of the Endurance, and Joshua Slocum, the redoubtable old "lunarian" and first single-handed-round-the-world yachtsman. He also recounts his own maiden voyage, and insights gleaned from his experiences as a practiced seaman and navigator. Full of heroism, danger, and excitement, told with an infectious sense of wonder, Sextant offers a new look at a masterful achievement that changed the course of history., 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. Since its invention in 1759, a mariner's most prized possession has been the sextant. A navigation tool that measures the angle between a celestial object and the horizon, the sextant allowed sailors to pinpoint their exact location at sea. David Barrie chronicles the sextant's development and shows how it not only saved the lives of navigators in wild and dangerous seas, but played a pivotal role in their ability to map the globe. He synthesizes centuries of seafaring history and the daring sailors who have become legend, including James Cook, Matthew Flinders, Robert Fitz-Roy, Frank Worsley of the Endurance , and Joshua Slocum, the redoubtable old "lunarian" and first single-handed-round-the-world yachtsman. He also recounts his own maiden voyage, and insights gleaned from his experiences as a practiced seaman and navigator. Full of heroism, danger, and excitement, told with an infectious sense of wonder, Sextant offers a new look at a masterful achievement that changed the course of history., 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. Since its invention in 1759, a mariner's most prized possession has been the sextant. A navigation tool that measures the angle between a celestial object and the horizon, the sextant allowed sailors to pinpoint their exact location at sea. David Barrie chronicles the sextant's development and shows how it not only saved the lives of navigators in wild and dangerous seas, but played a pivotal role in their ability to map the globe. He synthesizes centuries of seafaring history and the daring sailors who have become legend, including James Cook, Matthew Flinders, Robert Fitz-Roy, Frank Worsley of the Endurance, and Joshua Slocum, the redoubtable old "lunarian" and first single-handed-round-the-world yachtsman. He also recounts his own maiden voyage, and insights gleaned from his experiences as a practiced seaman and navigator. Full of heroism, danger, and excitement, told with an infectious sense of wonder, Sextant offers a new look at a masterful achievement that changed the course of history.
LC Classification Number
G540.B2717 2014
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