Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human

Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us HumanNavigation is the key human skill. It's something we do everywhere, whether feeling our way through a bedroom in the dark, or charting a ship's course. But how does navigation affect our brains, our memory, ourselves? Blending scientific research and memoir, and written in beautiful prose, Finding North starts with a quest by the author to understand this most basic of human skills and why it's in mortal peril. In 1844, Foy's great great grandfather,

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He explains how the region's unique geography fosters the growth of navies but also impedes aggression

no questions asked--on those too famous or too criminal to seek other medical care

and learns that the universe is an even stranger place than he'd imagined

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two daughters and a job she enjoys

seeking for meaning in a city that no longer seems like home

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Ten-year-old Tua - Thai for "peanut" - has everything she needs at home in Chiang Mai

madness and compromise

Weaver tries to persuade him to leave sleeping cells lie

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