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The lost art of finding our way / by Huth, John Edward.(CARDINAL)780586;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-511) and index.Before the bubble -- Maps in the mind -- On being lost -- Dead reckoning -- Urban myths of navigation -- Maps and compasses -- Stars -- The sun and the moon -- Where heaven meets earth -- Latitude and longitude -- Red sky at night -- Reading the waves -- Soundings and tides -- Currents and gyres -- Speed and stability of hulls -- Against the wind -- Fellow wanderers -- Baintabu's story."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 attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fogbank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena--the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and "read" waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth's compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view."--Book jacket.
Subjects: Naval art and science; Navigation;
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Submarine [videorecording] : steel boats, iron men / by Beach, Edward L.(Edward Latimer),1867-1943.(CARDINAL)668120; Clancy, Tom,1947-2013.(CARDINAL)293728; Duggan, William E.; Hoffman, David.(CARDINAL)475396; Lansing, Robert,1929-1994.; Wolfinger, Kirk.(CARDINAL)848146; Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.(CARDINAL)563859;
Introduction -- History -- Hyman Rickover -- Training -- Life on board.Narrated by Robert Lansing ; with appearances by Tom Clancy and Edward L. Beach.An intriguing documentary about the carefully selected crews and dangerous missions of submarine warfare.Not rated.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Naval art and science.; Submariners.; Submarines (Ships);
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New interpretations in naval history : selected papers from the sixteenth Naval History Symposium held at the United States Naval Academy, 10-11 September 2009 / by United States Naval Academy History Symposium(16th :2009); Felker, Craig C.,1959-(CARDINAL)310431; Jones, Marcus O.(CARDINAL)310430; Naval War College (U.S.).Press.(CARDINAL)339292;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Naval art and science; Naval history;
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Greek and Roman naval warfare : a study of strategy, tactics, and ship design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.). by Rodgers, William Ledyard,1860-1944.(CARDINAL)537544;
Includes bibliographies.
Subjects: Naval art and science;
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Great naval blunders / by Regan, Geoffrey,author.;
Subjects: Naval art and science; Marine accidents;
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Dictionary of military terms : a guide to the language of warfare and military institutions / by Dupuy, Trevor N.(Trevor Nevitt),1916-1995.(CARDINAL)150397; Johnson, Curt.(CARDINAL)129969; Hayes, Grace P.(CARDINAL)150391;
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Military art and science; Naval art and science; Military history; Naval history;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Naval warfare : an international encyclopedia / by Tucker, Spencer,1937-(CARDINAL)266730;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1139-1147) and index.Vol. 1, A-F; Vol. 2, G-P; Vol. 3, Q-Z.
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Biographies.; Naval art and science; Naval history; Naval biography;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Sea warfare : from World War I to the present day / by Jackson, Robert,1941-(CARDINAL)146209;
Subjects: Naval art and science; Naval history, Modern.; Sea-power;
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Ships and life afloat: from galley to turbine / by Buehr, Walter.(CARDINAL)151699;
Subjects: Naval art and science; Seafaring life.;
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Carthaginians 6th-2nd century BC / by Salimbeti, A.(Andrea)(CARDINAL)427936; D'Amato, Raffaele,author.(CARDINAL)426964; Rava, Giuseppe,1963-illustrator.(CARDINAL)495171;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Carthaginians.; Punic antiquities.; Naval art and science;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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