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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
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John Edward Huth |
Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes… |
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Flying Cloud
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David W. Shaw |
In 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud -- traveling from New … |
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Fifty ships that changed the course of history
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Ian Graham |
"A visual history of economic development in fifty ships, starting from the earliest known record, Pharaoh Khufu's solar barge (roughly 5000 years ago), to MS Allure of the Seas, the biggest passenge… |
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The Last Log of the Titanic
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David G. Brown |
"Absolute fascinating--it fills a huge void in the literature of the subject... . Brown's familiarity with the technical aspects of shipdriving, based on his own career at sea, gives him enormous cre… |
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The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (Transformations: Studies in the His…
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Nicolás Wey Gómez |
"Everyone knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, seeking a new route to the East. Few note, however, that Columbus's intention was also to sail south, to the tropics… |
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From Sail to Steam
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Richard Y. Francaviglia |
xvii, 324 p. : 24 cm |
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