The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth

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Long 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 part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history brings our own world into sharper view.

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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth

Long 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 part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history brings our own world into sharper view.
John Edward Huth is Donner Professor of Science in the Physics Department at Harvard University.
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ISBN 13 9780674072824
ISBN 10 0674072820
Title The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
Author John Edward Huth
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Harvard University Press
Year published 2013-05-15
Number of pages 520
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.