The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong.

In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. But by the time they returned home, Zhu Di had lost control and China was turning inwards, leaving the records of their discoveries to be forgotten for centuries.

Contains 18 projects that fall into three categories: decorative, useful, and somewhere in between. The projects in this book have been designed with an emphasis on simplicity and cost.

Offers a look at the 'navigation design' aspect of web site development. This book demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology - it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. It offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts.

Shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are easy to navigate. This book discusses blueprints, wireframes and the role of diagrams in the design phase. It addresses emerging technologies while maintaining its focus on fundamentals.

A guide to buying, adjusting, using, and repairing sextants. It includes a list of distributors, manufacturers, and dealers worldwide, a discussion of various trends, and hints, including sighting with eyeglasses and using a Rude starfinder.

Teaches readers how to observe - to see, smell, hear, and sense the details of the environment around them. This guide includes: the basics of global positioning system (GPS) navigation and CD-ROM maps; a color section on reading topographical maps.

Pulitzer-prize-winning author Tony Horwitz retraces the great voyages of Captain James Cook, the British farmboy who drew the map of the modern world.

Provides insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. This book discusses why people really leave Web sites; making sites usable and accessible; and, surviving executive design whims. It offers help for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing.

Offers a how to course in various sailing essentials. This book is suitable for those who think of taking up sailing in earnest or just as a weekend relaxation, and also for more experienced sailor who many need to improve his or her technique.

Suitable for everyone from the complete novice to the experienced hillwalker, this book presents the art of navigation from first stages to GPS. It gives explanations on the different type of tools available to help in finding your way and is fully illustrated with the author's own photographs and OS and other mapping.

Contains the information kayakers need to paddle the seas with safety and confidence. This title offers the information on chart reading, compass use, finding and keeping position, predicting tides and currents, and trip planning. It also includes advice on how to navigate at night, in fog, and in traffic.

Provides what engineers may need to know in aided navigation design. This title presents an industry standard approach to aided navigation system design. Incorporating both underlying theory and application, it explains the useful theory, concepts and tools for these versatile systems.

Presents an introduction to plotting a course in a seagoing kayak. This book features methods adapted to the constraints of navigating a tiny, slow craft while at the same time paddling and peering over wave tops.

A colour second edition of the bestselling 'Celestial Navigation'.

An account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory in studies of cognition. Drawing comparisons with navigation, this study argues that cultural systems have cognitive properties of their own that differ from the cognitive properties of the individuals within them.

Celestial navigation is an essential tool for those who do not wish to be caught short when modern technology fails. The basic process is simple - take a sight with a sextant, establish a secondary benchmark sight, compare the two sights and plot the result of the comparison on a chart.

This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.

Covers chartmaking concepts, the limits of accuracy of modern charts (paper and electronic), illustrations from actual charts, expanded versions of US, British, and international chart symbology descriptions contained in NOAA's Chart No 1, the British Admiralty's Chart 5011, and the IHO's INT-1. This title presents information on chart-reading.