Compass A Story of Exploration and Innovation by Alan Gurney 2004 Norton Publishing History books about Explorers
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This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 2004 Norton Publishing. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is like, barely a hint of shelf wear. Crown octavo book size or 5.5" x 8.5" with 328 pages.
Compass A Story of Exploration and Innovation by Alan Gurney is organized in a loose chronological order with detours for particularly significant people and topics. The authors begins with a hair-raising maritime tale in which the yachts high tech navigation equipment failed and left the crew to rely on the stars. Next, he steps back several centuries to explain how seafaring exploration got to that point. Overall the book is a rich history of the most important navigational device of all time - the magnetic compass.
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