NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jul 29, 07:23 -0400
Paul,Thanks for your list! It contains a number of titles new to me. I look forward to making the acquaintance of some of them!One that might fit your bill is Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth by Edwin Danson. I found this a delightful book with good narrative movement and a lot of wonderful information woven into it.--On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Paul Saffo <psaffo@mac.com> wrote:
I have enjoyed the various reading suggestions on this list (I just finished "Surface at the pole" - thanks!), and thus I have a question. Given that it is summertime, traditionally a season for lighter beach reading, I would love to see some suggestions for an all-time best navigation reading list. For me, the ideal book would be one that was a story or non-fiction with lots of navigation specifics, but not a navigation text. Not a heavy reading but still has some real navigation specifics.
For ex, here are some of my favorites that I think fall into this category:
--"Voyage of Rediscovery" (finney)
-- Hokule'a (also finney)
-- The Age of Reconnaisance (Parry)
-the history of C. Plath firm (Schaafhausen)
- tragedy at Honda (Lockwood)
-- Latitude and the Magnetic Earth (Pumfrey)
-- the last navigator (Thomas)
And not marine navigation, but a tremendous story with navigation-related details:
-- The pundits (Derek Waller)
-- the forbidden frontiers (showell Styles)What else should I be reading?
-p
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