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Re: Navigation "simplified". was: Buckley the Navigator
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2008 Mar 09, 14:17 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2008 Mar 09, 14:17 -0700
That's how I learned CN, by reading Mixters "Primer" about forty years ago. It's still on my bookshelf. gl frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote: >George H., you wrote: >"I have a longstanding distrust of any claim, in the title of a book (or >DVD, perhaps) that it is somehow "simplified", or "made easy"." > >Right. The catch, of course, is that the title is not a guarantee. But it's >also not a proof that the content is any worse than another book. I would >bet that if you were to strip off the covers and title pages from any five >navigation books picked at random that claim they're easy in the title and >compare against any five books that make no such claim, you wouldn't find >much difference in "ease" between the two sets. Good authors/teachers don't >necessarily correspond with friendly titles! > >A good old book with a friendly title was Mixter's "Primer of Navigation". >Today the word 'primer' (pronounced to rhyme with dimmer) is almost >obsolete, but in its day it referred to a very basic book --an easy >beginner's guide. This particular 'primer' is so good that I recommend even >today. > > -FER > >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---