Compass
Subtitle: A Story of Exploration and Innovation
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: August 8, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780393327137
First sentence: The cry of''Breakers ahead!" was the first warning that the navigating officers had made a dreadful mistake in their dead reckoning, or, in the mordant Spanish equivalent, their navegacion de fantasia.