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Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie

Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie

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In the tradition of Dava Sobel's ‘Longitude’ comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery – an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.

This is the story of an instrument that changed the world. In prose as crisp as the book’s subject, David Barrie tells how and why the sextant was invented; how offshore navigators depended on it for their lives in wild and dangerous seas until the advent of GPS – and the sextant’s vital role in the history of exploration.

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