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A story told well. That it's true, and had a huge effect on mariners adds all the more to this "gem of a book" as the NY Times praised it.
Telling time and its relation to travel/navigation on the seas meant the difference between life and death. And now Walker & Company has brought back this book which it first published in 1995, in an affordable softcover (yet it still has a color signature) edition.
If you missed the book the first time out, you can make-up for it now. You won't be disappointed.
Contents
Imaginary Lines
The Sea Before Time
Adrift in a Clockwork Universe
Time in a Bottle
Powder of Sympathy
The Prize
Cogmaker's Journal
The Grasshopper Goes to Sea
Hands on Heaven's Clock
The Diamond Timekeeper
Trial by Fire and Water
A Tale of Two Portraits
The Second Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Mass Production of Genius
In the Meridian Courtyard
184 pp., softcover
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