Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation (Revised) (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Gurney, Alan
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	08/01/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Gurney chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument 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.