The History of Navigation

By Dag Pike,

Book cover of The History of Navigation

Book description

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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1 author picked The History of Navigation as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

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

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