![]() ![]() But when the lonely woman moves into his mansion, her life begins to change. Recovering from a bad divorce, Laura, in some ways, is one of Anthony's lost things. As the end nears, he bequeaths his secret life's mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and and all its lost treasures, including an irritable ghost. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all the lost things with their owners. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects-the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidently left behind-and writing stories about them. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. ![]() Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair bobbles-Found, on the playing field, Derrywood Park, 2nd September.īone china cup and saucer-Found, on a bench in Riveria Public Gardens, 31st October.Īnthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail - W.A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us. ![]() ĭK Eyewitness Books: Submarine - Neil Mallard Sailing School - Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800 - Schotte M.E. Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands - Quanchi M. Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science - Tom Garrison The Barefoot Navigator: Wayfinding with the Skills of the Ancients - Lagan J. The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800 - Jowitt C., Lambert C. Heavenly Mathematics The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry - Glen Van Brummelen ![]() How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea (Natural Navigation) - Tristan Gooley… Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth's compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fogbank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena-the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and "read" waves to guide their explorations. Encyclopaedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Pressĭescription: Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans travelled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. ![]()
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