Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation. By Alan Gurney. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Pp. 307. $22.95.)

"For close to a thousand years the magnetic compass needle ... was the seaman's guide across the seas and oceans that make up two-thirds of our planet [and] the sole instrument on which sailors placed their faith and their lives" (295). A yacht designer and author of a previous volume on Antarctic exploration, the author found his motive for writing his new book in his "total lack of appreciation and understanding of all the developments ...

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