Dag Pike

The History of Navigation (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A history of the development of navigation at sea throughout the ages, including the challenges faced and the advancements in technology.

"A concise overview of navigation at sea.Pike, a maritime writer with a lengthy maritime career, examines many aspects of ocean travel, including weather, oceanography, charting, routing, and buoyage, as well as various methods for marine navigation, such as celestial, electronic, terrestrial, and satellite.... Overall, this is a useful introductory volume for maritime studies and nautical science programs." - CHOICE

Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus.

The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets out to record the development of navigational techniques from the earliest time, five millenniums ago. As explorers started to venture offshore into the unknown they had to rely on the sun and stars for direction. From this, pioneers turned to mathematics, astrolabes, sextants and increasing accurate clocks to measure latitude and later longitude. More recently major breakthroughs with electronic navigation, GPS and other satellite systems have revolutionised travel.

Focusing primarily but not exclusively on marine navigation, the author weaves a fascinating course through the successes and failures of mankind's quest to explore his world. The result is a thoroughly entertaining and informative work which has no rival.

"Reads well, is concise, maintains the interest of the reader and includes just enough personal touch to "not" make you feel that it is an autobiography." -Naval Historical Foundation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Maritime
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526731708
• Artikelnr.: 54666778

Autorenporträt

Dag Pike first went to sea aged 16 on tramp ships and experienced his first shipwreck two years later. He became the youngest Trinity House lighthouse tender captain aged 29. He went to become an Inspector of Lifeboats responsible for some 50 RNLI stations. He has participated in six Atlantic record attempts and, as a member of the Italian Destriero project, made the fastest crossing averaging over 53 knots. He lives at Bristol.