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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
The Natural Navigator
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills (
How To Read Water
Sextant: The Elegant Instrument That Guided the Great Explorers, and a Young Man's First Journey Across the Atlantic
General Navigation. ATPL Ground Training Series
Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen
Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Be Expert with Map and Compass: The Complete Orienteering Handbook
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienSeed of the Defiled by John  EdgellMalice by John GwynneA Cast of Stones by Patrick W. Carr
Quests
440 books — 266 voters

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather FawcettThe Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Amelia WildeBeards and Babies by Heather LaurenThe Breathe Me Duet by C.R. JaneNever Say Never by Mayra Statham
Compass Covers
11 books — 9 voters
Sea People by Christina ThompsonCook  by Nicholas ThomasWe, the Navigators by David        LewisPacific Worlds by Matt K. MatsudaThe Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by Geoffrey Irwin
Pacific Non-Fiction
170 books — 10 voters

Michael Shaw Bond
“ On the island of Igloolik, where Aporta has conducted much of his research, a good navigator is known by the term 'aangaittuq', which means 'attentive'. Aangaittuq describes not just a person's wayfinding savvy, but their whole attitude to life. 'Being a good wayfinder is no different from being a good provider', Aporta has said, 'as both hunting and wayfinding are parts of the broader tasks of dwelling. ...more ”
― Michael Shaw Bond, From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way

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