The Natural Navigator
The Natural Navigator

Author: Tristan Gooley

Publisher: The Experiment

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1615191550

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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

Tables to Facilitate the Practice of Great Circle Sailing, and the Determination of Azimuths (Classic Reprint)
Tables to Facilitate the Practice of Great Circle Sailing, and the Determination of Azimuths (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Thomas Towson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-04

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780484060653

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Excerpt from Tables to Facilitate the Practice of Great Circle Sailing, and the Determination of Azimuths It is, now universally known by seamen that the shortest line Which can be drawn between any two places on the surface of the globe is an arc of a great circle passing through them both; and, moreover, that the rhumb line, or the apparent course upon the chart drawn from one of those places to the other, can never coincide With that great circle unless both places lie on the Equator or on a common meridian. It is not, therefore, from want of general conviction of the propriety of having recourse to Great Circle Sailing that it is 'se rarely used by practical men, but from the tedious length of the calculations requisite to determine the series of ever-changing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.