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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation

Author Alan Gurney

Format Hardcover

Publisher W. W. Norton & Company

Category Exploration

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"This is the history of the most important navigational device of all time, the magnetic compass, born of the need for a reliable means of navigating treacherous sea routes around the globe. Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the instrument - so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger." "Compass is organized in loosely chronological order - with detours for particularly significant people or topics - in twenty-one short chapters."--BOOK JACKET.

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Alan Gurney

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  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780393050738

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