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  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. North
  4. The Navigational Fix 1
  5. Horizon 2
  6. Captive 3
  7. Artifacts 4
  8. Desire Lines 5
  9. Desire is never on the map 6
  10. Barometer 8
  11. So Many Superstitions to Defy 9
  12. Heading for Town 10
  13. Body Memory 11
  14. What She Can’t Say 12
  15. Correcting for Variation 13
  16. Correcting for Deviation 14
  17. What the Sea Takes, Gives Back 15
  18. Steer for the Light 16
  19. Because the sea never forgets 17
  20. West
  21. Hsui 21
  22. What Was Lost 22
  23. Wind Rose 24
  24. This World More Properly Resembles a Heart 25
  25. Mercator Writes His Epitaph 26
  26. Painting of John Harrison 28
  27. The Forestaff 1587 30
  28. The Wounded Dog Theory 31
  29. The Statue of Flavio Gioia 32
  30. Bravo Ocean 33
  31. Cow Falling, Again 35
  32. Leap 36
  33. South
  34. Here Be Dragons 39
  35. Navigating the Body 40
  36. Terra Incognita 41
  37. Triangulate 42
  38. Deep Space 43
  39. Catenary 44
  40. Tied, Untied 45
  41. Flotsam 48
  42. Jetsam 49
  43. Horse Latitudes 50
  44. Equilibrate 52
  45. Adrift 53
  46. Existence Doubtful 54
  47. Melancholia 56
  48. She Speaks in Tongues 57
  49. East
  50. Lost 61
  51. Landlocked 62
  52. Dead Reckoning 63
  53. The Coriolis Effect 64
  54. She Dreams of Great Circle Sailing 65
  55. Boxing the Compass 66
  56. True North 67
  57. Working on Deck 68
  58. Eye Splice 70
  59. Sailing by Ravens 71
  60. Steering by Monarchs 73
  61. Reckoning, Again 74
  62. And the Universe Curved 76
  63. All the Unseen Forces 78
  64. Notes 79
  65. Acknowledgments 83
Sailing by Ravens
This chapter is in the book Sailing by Ravens
https://doi.org/10.5876/9781602232266.c028

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. North
  4. The Navigational Fix 1
  5. Horizon 2
  6. Captive 3
  7. Artifacts 4
  8. Desire Lines 5
  9. Desire is never on the map 6
  10. Barometer 8
  11. So Many Superstitions to Defy 9
  12. Heading for Town 10
  13. Body Memory 11
  14. What She Can’t Say 12
  15. Correcting for Variation 13
  16. Correcting for Deviation 14
  17. What the Sea Takes, Gives Back 15
  18. Steer for the Light 16
  19. Because the sea never forgets 17
  20. West
  21. Hsui 21
  22. What Was Lost 22
  23. Wind Rose 24
  24. This World More Properly Resembles a Heart 25
  25. Mercator Writes His Epitaph 26
  26. Painting of John Harrison 28
  27. The Forestaff 1587 30
  28. The Wounded Dog Theory 31
  29. The Statue of Flavio Gioia 32
  30. Bravo Ocean 33
  31. Cow Falling, Again 35
  32. Leap 36
  33. South
  34. Here Be Dragons 39
  35. Navigating the Body 40
  36. Terra Incognita 41
  37. Triangulate 42
  38. Deep Space 43
  39. Catenary 44
  40. Tied, Untied 45
  41. Flotsam 48
  42. Jetsam 49
  43. Horse Latitudes 50
  44. Equilibrate 52
  45. Adrift 53
  46. Existence Doubtful 54
  47. Melancholia 56
  48. She Speaks in Tongues 57
  49. East
  50. Lost 61
  51. Landlocked 62
  52. Dead Reckoning 63
  53. The Coriolis Effect 64
  54. She Dreams of Great Circle Sailing 65
  55. Boxing the Compass 66
  56. True North 67
  57. Working on Deck 68
  58. Eye Splice 70
  59. Sailing by Ravens 71
  60. Steering by Monarchs 73
  61. Reckoning, Again 74
  62. And the Universe Curved 76
  63. All the Unseen Forces 78
  64. Notes 79
  65. Acknowledgments 83
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