Sextant: The Elegant Instrument That Guided the Great Explorers, and a Young Man's First Journey Across the Atlantic by David Barrie

Sextant: The Elegant Instrument That Guided the Great Explorers, and a Young Man's First Journey Across the Atlantic

David Barrie

288 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science travel adventurous informative medium-paced
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This is an absoulutely wonderful hymn to the sextant as an elegant instrument, and the reward of fixing your position by reference to the heavens, and not just by pushing a button.Barrie begins with his first voyage across the north Atlantic about...

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