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Compass – A Story of Exploration and Innovation

Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compass – so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger. In this history of man`s search for reliable navigation of treacherous sea routes around the globe, Alan Gurney brings to life the instrument Victor Hugo called “the soul of the ship”.

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