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Sextant: a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans
Sextant: a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans
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Barrie, David, 1953-
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English
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Hughes Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
910.45 Barrie
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Introduction
Setting sail
First sight
The origins of the sextant
Bligh's boat journey
Anson's ordeals
The marine chronometer
Celestial timekeeping
Captain Cook charts the Pacific
Bougainville in the South Seas
La Pérouse vanishes
The travails of George Vancouver
Flinders-coasting Australia
Flinders-shipwreck and captivity
Voyages of the Beagle
Slocum circles the world
Endurance
"These are men"
Two landfalls
Epilogue.
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History
Nautical astronomy
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Barrie, David
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9780062279354
9780062279361
9780062279347
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