Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation by Alan Gurney by Alan Gurney, Alan Gurney

Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation by Alan Gurney

Alan Gurney, Alan Gurney

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informative inspiring slow-paced
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The fascinating and disaster-strewn history of the search to perfect the essential navigational device. This book chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument so precious to sixteenth-century seamen tha...

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