Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human

by George Michelsen Foy

Book Overview

Navigation is the key human skill. It's something we do everywhere, whether feeling our way through a bedroom in the dark, or charting a ship's course. But how does navigation affect our brains, our memory, ourselves? Blending scientific research and memoir, and written in beautiful prose, Finding North starts with a quest by the author to understand this most basic of human skills---and why it's in mortal peril.

In 1844, Foy's great-great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250052688
• ISBN13: 9781250052681
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.3"