LEADER 03999nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910787679003321 005 20230124191003.0 010 $a0-674-07481-5 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674074811 035 $a(CKB)2670000000417727 035 $a(EBL)3301321 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000941140 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11545401 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000941140 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10963481 035 $a(PQKB)11455204 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301321 035 $a(DE-B1597)209765 035 $a(OCoLC)855022900 035 $a(OCoLC)979752468 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674074811 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301321 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10739136 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000417727 100 $a20121203d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe lost art of finding our way$b[electronic resource] /$fJohn Edward Huth 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (544 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-07282-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$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 330 $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. 606 $aNavigation$xHistory 606 $aNaval art and science$xHistory 615 0$aNavigation$xHistory. 615 0$aNaval art and science$xHistory. 676 $a629.04/509 700 $aHuth$b John Edward$01527933 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787679003321 996 $aThe lost art of finding our way$93771304 997 $aUNINA