The Resource Sextant : a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans, David Barrie
Sextant : a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans, David Barrie
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The item Sextant : a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans, David Barrie represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Chronicles the author's first transatlantic voyage, when he learned to navigate using a sextant, and traces how this indispensable navigational tool was used by daring mariners to explore and map the world
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xx, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Setting sail
- First sight
- The origins of the sextant
- Bligh's boat journey
- Anson's ordeals
- The marine chronometer
- Celestial timekeeping
- Captain Cook charts the Pacific
- Bougainville in the South Seas
- La Pérouse vanishes
- The travails of George Vancouver
- Flinders-coasting Australia
- Flinders-shipwreck and captivity
- Voyages of the Beagle
- Slocum circles the world
- Endurance
- "These are men"
- Two landfalls
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780062279347
- Label
- Sextant : a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans
- Title
- Sextant
- Title remainder
- a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans
- Statement of responsibility
- David Barrie
- Subject
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- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Barrie, David, 1953-
- Barrie, David, 1953- -- Travel -- Atlantic Ocean
- History
- Nautical astronomy
- Nautical astronomy -- History
- Navigation
- Navigation -- Histoire
- Atlantic Ocean
- Navigation astronomique -- Histoire
- Sextant
- Sextant
- Sextants
- Travel
- sextants
- Navigation -- History
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Chronicles the author's first transatlantic voyage, when he learned to navigate using a sextant, and traces how this indispensable navigational tool was used by daring mariners to explore and map the world
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Barrie, David
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Barrie, David
- Barrie, David
- Navigation
- Sextant
- Nautical astronomy
- Navigation
- Sextants
- Navigation astronomique
- sextants
- Nautical astronomy
- Navigation
- Sextant
- Travel
- Atlantic Ocean
- Label
- Sextant : a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans, David Barrie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Setting sail -- First sight -- The origins of the sextant -- Bligh's boat journey -- Anson's ordeals -- The marine chronometer -- Celestial timekeeping -- Captain Cook charts the Pacific -- Bougainville in the South Seas -- La Pérouse vanishes -- The travails of George Vancouver -- Flinders-coasting Australia -- Flinders-shipwreck and captivity -- Voyages of the Beagle -- Slocum circles the world -- Endurance -- "These are men" -- Two landfalls -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 857966932
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xx, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780062279347
- Lccn
- 2014466387
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)857966932
- Label
- Sextant : a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans, David Barrie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Setting sail -- First sight -- The origins of the sextant -- Bligh's boat journey -- Anson's ordeals -- The marine chronometer -- Celestial timekeeping -- Captain Cook charts the Pacific -- Bougainville in the South Seas -- La Pérouse vanishes -- The travails of George Vancouver -- Flinders-coasting Australia -- Flinders-shipwreck and captivity -- Voyages of the Beagle -- Slocum circles the world -- Endurance -- "These are men" -- Two landfalls -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 857966932
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xx, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780062279347
- Lccn
- 2014466387
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)857966932
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Barrie, David, 1953-
- Barrie, David, 1953- -- Travel -- Atlantic Ocean
- History
- Nautical astronomy
- Nautical astronomy -- History
- Navigation
- Navigation -- Histoire
- Atlantic Ocean
- Navigation astronomique -- Histoire
- Sextant
- Sextant
- Sextants
- Travel
- sextants
- Navigation -- History
- Autobiographies
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