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Genre/Form: | Autobiographies |
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Named Person: | David Barrie |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Barrie |
ISBN: | 9780062279347 0062279343 9780062279354 0062279351 |
OCLC Number: | 857966932 |
Description: | xx, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Setting sail -- First sight -- The origins of the sextant -- Bligh's boat journey -- Anson's ordeals -- The marine chronometer -- Celestial timekeeping -- Captain Cook charts the Pacific -- Bougainville in the South Seas -- La Pérouse vanishes -- The travails of George Vancouver -- Flinders-coasting Australia -- Flinders-shipwreck and captivity -- Voyages of the Beagle -- Slocum circles the world -- Endurance -- "These are men" -- Two landfalls -- Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | David Barrie. |
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Abstract:
Chronicles the author's first transatlantic voyage, when he learned to navigate using a sextant, and traces how this indispensable navigational tool was used by daring mariners to explore and map the world.
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