The History of Navigation
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Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus.
The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets out to record the development of navigational techniques from the earliest time, five millenniums ago. As explorers started to venture offshore into the unknown they…
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Julian Stockwin
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As part of the research for a new series about the Age of Sail I revisited my reference libary and found this book an excellent overview to the subject