Description: Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative--part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history--brings our own world into sharper view.
Brief description: John Edward Huth is Donner Professor of Science in the Physics Department at Harvard University.
Review Quotes: One of the repeated themes of The Lost Art of Finding Our Way is that even the most confused of us can improve our navigational understanding by paying closer attention to the world around us... A learned and encyclopedic grab bag, packed with information drawn from study and Huth's own experience.--Michael Dirda "Washington Post" (6/13/2013 12:00:00 AM)