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Compass

Alan Gurney

2004288 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2004
first published
  • 2005Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780393608830
  • 2005W. W. Norton & Company · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780393327137
  • 2004Books On Tape · ENGISBN 9781415917404
  • 2004W. W. Norton & Company · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780393050738

A history of the compass describes its pivotal role in early shipping, relating how its development over the course of hundreds of years was marked by thousands of shipwrecks and the disastrous fates of sailors who misused it.

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