001479221 000__ 06248nam\a22009495i\4500 001479221 001__ 1479221 001479221 003__ DE-B1597 001479221 005__ 20231026035017.0 001479221 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479221 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479221 008__ 210830t20132013mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479221 019__ $$a(OCoLC)979752468 001479221 020__ $$a9780674074811 001479221 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674074811$$2doi 001479221 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)209765 001479221 035__ $$a(OCoLC)855022900 001479221 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479221 0410_ $$aeng 001479221 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479221 072_7 $$aSCI034000$$2bisacsh 001479221 1001_ $$aHuth, John Edward, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479221 24514 $$aThe Lost Art of Finding Our Way /$$cJohn Edward Huth. 001479221 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2013] 001479221 264_4 $$c©2013 001479221 300__ $$a1 online resource (538 p.) :$$b171 halftones, 54 line illustrations, 3 tables 001479221 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479221 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479221 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479221 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479221 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$t1. Before the Bubble -- $$t2. Maps in the Mind -- $$t3. On Being Lost -- $$t4. Dead Reckoning -- $$t5. Urban Myths of Navigation -- $$t6. Maps and Compasses -- $$t7. Stars -- $$t8. The Sun and the Moon -- $$t9. Where Heaven Meets Earth -- $$t10. Latitude and Longitude -- $$t11. Red Sky at Night -- $$t12. Reading the Waves -- $$t13. Soundings and Tides -- $$t14. Currents and Gyres -- $$t15. Speed and Stability of Hulls -- $$t16. Against the Wind -- $$t17. Fellow Wanderers -- $$t18. Baintabu's Story -- $$tAppendix 1: Major Star Coordinates and Mapping onto Earth -- $$tAppendix 2: Some Significant Events in Latitude and Longitude -- $$tAppendix 3: Toledo Tables -- $$tAppendix 4: Sailing Capabilities in Baintabu's Story -- $$tGlossary -- $$tNotes -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001479221 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479221 520__ $$aLong before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fogbank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena-the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and "read" waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth's compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view. 001479221 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479221 546__ $$aIn English. 001479221 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. 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