The skill of navigation has been a key role in the development of humanity until just recently. The inventions of things like GPS systems, digital maps and satellite images make basic navigation skills almost unnecessary. These skills, in my opinion, should still be a part of society. In a survival situation these basic navigation skills can mean life or death. The decay of these skills coincide with the loss of the original lifestyle. For my fourth quarter topic, I decided to get at this somewhat of an issue. I'm reading two books adding up to around 850 pages, one getting at this issue and the other a journey by a man that navigation skills were necessary. The first book I am going to read, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way, gets directly at this issue. How humans have lost their skill of being able to get lost. This is to compare my thoughts toward this topic to another opinion. I am hoping to gain some knowledge from this because the author, to write this book, must of had to do research and more thought than I have. The next book I read is to reinforce my idea of how necessary navigation skills are in a survival situation.
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way - John Edward Huth - 544 pages
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake - Samuel Bawf - 368 pages
I plan on finishing The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by the end of the fidth week of this quarter. The Secret Voyage will carry me until the end of the school year with a week to spare to work on my project.
John-Luc,
ReplyDeleteSounds like a topic that is right up your alley! I hope you get really into it and keep up with all of your blogs this quarter!