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Date: 1952

Sextant - Guided by the Stars 20%OffWatches can be seen in theIn the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. This is the story of an instrument that changed the world. In prose as crisp as the books subject, David Barrie tells how and why the sextant was invented;