Neil Armstrong
An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, LONGITUDE is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. It is also a captivating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. During the great ... [... more]
Random House |
Celestial Navigation Quick and Easy: In Your Head ...
 Indeed mostly useless: Alas a have to join the last reviewer in most of his remarks. Though I liked the Analemma part which was quite interesting and somewhat useful, there is nothing in it which would help you in navigating with a sextant. The rest is [... more]
CDN$16.00
Amazon CA |
Susanne Akesson
Susanne Åkesson, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, in Sweden. She teaches evolutionary animal ecology and ornithology and does research in animal migration and navigation. She also does popular science ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Ivan Van Sertima
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and ... [... more]
Random House |
Applied Mathematics in Integrated Navigation Systems
Author: Robert M. Rogers Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 629 EAN: 9781563479274 Edition: 3 ISBN: 1563479273 Number Of Pages: 326 Publication Date: 2007-09 [... more]
CDN$98.92
Amazon CA |
Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese
Author: G. R. Tibbetts Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 909 EAN: 9780947593230 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0947593233 Number Of Pages: 640 Publication Date: 2002-03-01 [... more]
CDN$177.12
Amazon CA |
Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen
Small book packed with information: I was concerned that such a small book (just over 100 pages) could contain enough information about celestial navigation to make my sextant useful. I shouldn't have been. The book is bypasses hype, lore and commentary [... more]
CDN$20.95
Amazon CA |
Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us: Finding Your Way By ...
A really practical guide to navigating in small boats: I have read or skimmed dozens of works on navigation. I have also navigated a variety of small boats along the coasts of Nova Scotia. None of the other books provided the degree of realistic and [... more]
CDN$31.95
Amazon CA |
Taking the Stars: Celestial Navigation from Argonauts to ...
Beautifully put together book about navigation: Today the very idea of using a sextant seems crazy when you can just switch on your GPS and be told where on the planet you are. This book takes you through some of the scientific instruments used to find [... more]
CDN$73.24
Amazon CA |
Celestial Navigation: A Programmed Learning Course
easy to follow: Starting from the basics, this book allowed me to get a grasp of the fundamentals of celestial navigation. It concentrates mainly on obtaining a position from the sun, and very little space is devoted to moon and star sights. That being [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation, 3rd
The Bible of Kayak Navigation: The complete guide to finding your way and getting there safely. Burch, the director of the Starpath School of Navigation in Seattle, Washington, covers every topic that I can imagine is relevant to sea kayaking, including [... more]
CDN$23.95
Amazon CA |
Dutton's Nautical Navigation
Not essential to navigation, but most desirable: The essentials to celestial navigation are a sextant, the current nautical almanac, and an accurate timepiece correctible to Greenwich Mean Time (Coordinated Universal Time.) Given those things and some [... more]
CDN$55.18
Amazon CA |
