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Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Long 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...
10) A Viking voyage: in which an unlikely crew of adventurers attempts an epic journey to the New World
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
11) Amazing boats
Author
Series
Eyewitness juniors volume 21
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Text and photos provide an introduction to the history of boats, from simple floating logs and dugout canoes to high-tech fishing boats, icebreakers, and floating airports.
14) Boat
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House [distributor]
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
A history of the development and uses of boats, ships, and rafts, from birch-bark canoes to luxury liners.
16) The rivermen
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
©1975
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of transportation on the Missouri River in the nineteenth century and its impact on the development of the West.
Author
Publisher
Springer/Praxis
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"The technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft's computer was required to be compact and low power. Although people today find it difficult to accept that it was possible to control a spacecraft using such a 'primitive' computer, it nevertheless had capabilities that are advanced even by today's standards. This is the first...
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