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Wayfinding - The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World (Hardcover)
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Wayfinding - The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World (Hardcover)
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At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding
our way make us human. A marvel of storytelling. --Kirkus (Starred
Review) In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out
neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to
understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity.
Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms
have the ability to migrate and orient with such
precision--especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread
across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the
Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to
masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions
at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O'Connor explores
the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the
hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming
amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or
imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise
our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and
health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying
how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such
as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, depression and
PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species'
profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results
in topophilia, the love of place. O'Connor talked to just the right
people in just the right places, and her narrative is a marvel of
storytelling on its own merits, erudite but lightly worn. There are
many reasons why people should make efforts to improve their
geographical literacy, and O'Connor hits on many in this excellent
book--devouring it makes for a good start. --Kirkus Reviews
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