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The Paradoxal Compass: Drake´s Dilemma
Horatio J. Morpurgo
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Description for The Paradoxal Compass: Drake´s Dilemma
Hardback. .
What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs about the better-known names. Many of the Tudor explorers set sail from the South West peninsula. Morpurgo, with his own deep connections to the Dorset coast, unearths the stories behind little-known key figures Stephen Borough and John Davis, and their brilliant navigational teacher, John Dee, inventor of the 'paradoxall compass'. Morpurgo dramatises an episode in Drake's circumnavigation during which the Golden Hind was stranded on a rock off Celebes, Indonesia. What altercation occurred between Drake and the ... Read more
What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs about the better-known names. Many of the Tudor explorers set sail from the South West peninsula. Morpurgo, with his own deep connections to the Dorset coast, unearths the stories behind little-known key figures Stephen Borough and John Davis, and their brilliant navigational teacher, John Dee, inventor of the 'paradoxall compass'. Morpurgo dramatises an episode in Drake's circumnavigation during which the Golden Hind was stranded on a rock off Celebes, Indonesia. What altercation occurred between Drake and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910749517
SKU
V9781910749517
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-18
About Horatio J. Morpurgo
Horatio Morpurgo's essays on the environment and on European affairs have appeared in many publications including Arete, PN Review, London Magazine, Quarterly Review, Resurgence and the Ecologist. He was involved in the campaign to set up the first Marine Protected Area in English waters in Lyme Bay.
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