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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 78,195 ratings — published 1995
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 357 ratings — published 2013
Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 412 ratings — published 1958
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 680 ratings — published 2019
The Natural Navigator (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 1,341 ratings — published 2010
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 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 5,478 ratings — published 2014
How To Read Water (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,384 ratings — published 2016
Sextant: The Elegant Instrument That Guided the Great Explorers, and a Young Man's First Journey Across the Atlantic (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 815 ratings — published 2014
General Navigation. ATPL Ground Training Series (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 30 ratings — published
Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 80 ratings — published 1950
Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 136 ratings — published 2016
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 21,233 ratings — published 1955
Be Expert with Map and Compass: The Complete Orienteering Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 420 ratings — published 1955
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)
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avg rating 4.40 — 153 ratings — published 1972
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 8,061 ratings — published 2019
The American Practical Navigator (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 137 ratings — published 1802
Celestial Navigation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 38 ratings — published 1998
Inner Navigation: Why We Get Lost and How We Find Our Way (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.16 — 58 ratings — published 2002
Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 66 ratings — published 2012
Navigation: Techniques and Skills for Walkers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 27 ratings — published 2007
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 550 ratings — published 2024
Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 590 ratings — published
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 20,256 ratings — published 2021
Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 793 ratings — published 2020
Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 101 ratings — published 2012
Ultimate Navigation Manual (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 162 ratings — published 2011
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 66,054 ratings — published 1969
Dare the Wind: The Record-Breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 460 ratings — published 2014
The Principles and Practice of Navigation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 55 ratings — published 1988
Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 26 ratings — published 2007
Land Navigation Handbook: The Sierra Club Guide to Map and Compass (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 37 ratings — published 1983
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 20,012 ratings — published 2003
The Essential Wilderness Navigator: How to Find Your Way in the Great Outdoors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 118 ratings — published 1995
Basic Essentials Map & Compass (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 79 ratings — published 2008
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.49 — 18,681 ratings — published 2025
The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey & Maturin, #16)
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avg rating 4.40 — 9,890 ratings — published 1993
Offline Navigation Essentials: Practical Methods for Land Travel and Route Finding Without GPS or Cellular Data (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Many Voices: Building Erie, The Canal That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30 ratings — published
The Bagnold Sun-Compass: Long Range Desert Group (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2011
The Secret World of Weather (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,171 ratings — published 2021
Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,072 ratings — published 1996
Map Reading and Land Navigation: FM 3-25.26 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 31 ratings — published
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3,209 ratings — published 1542
Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, & GPS (Mountaineers Outdoor Basics)
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avg rating 4.16 — 377 ratings — published 2012
The Control of Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 5,116 ratings — published 1989
Sundials: Their Theory and Construction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 60 ratings — published 1973
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 124,734 ratings — published 1859
The Travels of William Bartram (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1980
In Patagonia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 19,987 ratings — published 1977
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 4,345 ratings — published 2023
“And if I can't figure out where we are this evening, now, I think it will be time for me to leave here too.”
― Dhalgren
― Dhalgren
“The goal was never just to read the map better. It was to take the wheel.”
― Moving. Still.: How capable people navigate decisions when ambition, growth, or the pressure to keep performing begin to pull them off course.
― Moving. Still.: How capable people navigate decisions when ambition, growth, or the pressure to keep performing begin to pull them off course.












