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Sextant : a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans / David Barrie.
Chronicles the author's first transatlantic voyage, when he learned to navigate using a sextant, and traces how this indispensible navigational tool was used by daring mariners to explore and map the world.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062279347 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xx, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Setting sail -- First sight -- The origins of the sextant -- Bligh's boat journey -- Anson's ordeals -- The marine chronometer -- Celestial timekeeping -- Captain Cook charts the Pacific -- Bougainville in the South Seas -- La P©♭rouse vanishes -- The travails of George Vancouver -- Flinders-coasting Australia -- Flinders-shipwreck and captivity -- Voyages of the Beagle -- Slocum circles the world -- Endurance -- "These are men" -- Two landfalls -- Epilogue. |
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| Subject: | Barrie, David > Travel > Atlantic Ocean. Navigation > History. Sextant. Nautical astronomy > History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | 910.45 BARR (Text) | 30886000539193 | Adult Nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
