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The Paradoxal Compass: Drake's Dilemma (Hardcover)
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The Paradoxal Compass: Drake's Dilemma (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R461
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What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed
one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs
about the better-known names. Many of the Tudor explorers set sail
from the South West peninsula. Morpurgo, with his own deep
connections to the Dorset coast, unearths the stories behind
little-known key figures Stephen Borough and John Davis, and their
brilliant navigational teacher, John Dee, inventor of the
'paradoxall compass'. Morpurgo dramatises an episode in Drake's
circumnavigation during which the Golden Hind was stranded on a
rock off Celebes, Indonesia. What altercation occurred between
Drake and the ship's chaplain, Francis Fletcher, during those
terrifying twenty hours? Morpurgo makes a compelling argument for
what was really at the heart of that disagreement, and its
present-day repercussions. He argues that the Tudor navigators and
their stories may hold the key to how we should approach the
current environmental crisis. This is the Age of Discovery as
you've never heard it before.
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