Compass

Compass
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0393050734
ISBN-13 : 9780393050738
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Book Synopsis Compass by : Alan Gurney

Download or read book Compass written by Alan Gurney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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