Navigational Instruments

by Richard Dunn and Richard Dunn

Book Overview

With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated.

The development of instruments over the last five hundred years has seen some revolutionary changes, spurred on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747815062
• ISBN13: 9780747815068
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Shire Publications
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.1"