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Wayfinding
- The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
- De: M. R. O'Connor
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision - especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate.
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Does’t stay on point
- De Charles en 07-21-19
- Wayfinding
- The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
- De: M. R. O'Connor
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
Well-researched, grounded, imaginative, delightful
Revisado: 12-24-20
This book was recommended to me and might not have been something I picked up on my own, but I’m really glad I did. I thought the book was a perfect balance between research and storytelling. It thoroughly explores the history and science of human navigation, and like all good research, it leaves you not only with fascinating answers, but with new questions.
I liked the performance a lot too, and thought the narrator did great with all the multi-lingual pronunciation!
I learned a lot, including things about colonialism in Australia I had known absolutely nothing about, and I didn’t expect to be as moved as I was by a discussion of navigation. It helps explains small things you’ve undoubtedly experienced just by virtue of being human, and also gives some concrete (and concerning) projections about the future of human minds in the age of auto-navigation.
If you are interested in navigation, human psychology, or just like learning new things, I highly recommend this book.
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