Finding North: How Navigation Makes us Human [Audiobook] download free by George Michelsen Foy
- Listen audiobook: Finding North: How Navigation Makes us Human
- Author: George Michelsen Foy
- Release date: 2016/9/19
- Publisher: FLATIRON BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781250052681
- Rating: 7.97 of 10
- Votes: 227
- Review by: Kingsley Torrez
- Review rating: 8.67 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/4
- Duration: 3H44M43S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AIFF, MPEG4, FLAC, WMA, MP3, WAV (compression CPIO, GZ, LZ, RAR, ZIP, RPM)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M37S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In 1844, Foy's great-great grandfather, captain of a Norwegian cargo ship, perished at sea after getting lost in a snowstorm. Foy decides to unravel the mystery surrounding Halvor Michelsen's death and the roots of his own obsession with navigation by re-creating his ancestor's trip using only period instruments. Beforehand, he meets a colourful cast of characters to learn whether men really have better directional skills than women, how cells, eels, and spaceships navigate; and how tragedy results from GPS glitches. He interviews a cabby who has memorized every street in London, sails on a Haitian cargo sloop, and visits the site of a secret navigational cult in Greece. At the heart of Foy's story is this fact: navigation and the brain's memory centers are inextricably linked. As Foy unravels the secret behind Halvor's death, he also discovers why forsaking our navigation skills in favor of GPS may lead not only to Alzheimers and other diseases of memory, but to losing a key part of what makes us human.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Geographical Discovery & Exploration, Popular Science, Travel Writing, Ships & Shipping, Navigation & Seamanship
- Download servers: Degoo, Uploaded, FreakShare, Google Drive, Novafile, 4Shared, MEGA. Compressed in CPIO, GZ, LZ, RAR, ZIP, RPM
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 26.45 USD
- Dimensions: 147x216x28mm
- Weight: 387g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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