Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie

Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

David Barrie

384 pages paperback 2014

8 editions

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In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes this dramatic tale of invention and discovery--an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and to the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and m...

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