"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. From the time man first took to
the seas until only one thousand years ago, sight and winds were
the sailor's only navigational aids. It was not until the
development of the compass that maps and charts could be used with
any accuracy even so, it would be hundreds of years and thousands
of shipwrecks before the marvelous instrument was perfected. And
its history up to modern times is filled with the stories of
disasters that befell sailors who misused it. In this page-turning
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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