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Compass
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Compass (2004) (edit title/settings)

A Story of Exploration and Innovation

by Alan Gurney (Author) (edit contributors)

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The fascinating and disaster-strewn history of the search to perfect the essential navigational device. This book chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it... read more

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The cry of''Breakers ahead!" was the first warning that the navigating officers had made a dreadful mistake in their dead reckoning, or, in the mordant Spanish equivalent, their navegacion de fantasia.

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  1. Alan Gurney (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0393050734
Page Count: 288

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