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

David Barrie

368 pages • first pub 2014 (view editions)

nonfiction history science travel adventurous informative medium-paced
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In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners wh...

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