Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human - Couverture rigide

Foy, George Michelsen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1250052688 ISBN 13 : 9781250052681

Editeur : Flatiron Books, 2016

Synopsis

In 1844, Foy's great-great grandfather, captain of a Norwegian cargo ship, perished at sea after getting lost in a snowstorm. Foy decides to unravel the mystery surrounding Halvor Michelsen's death and the roots of his own obsession with navigation by re-creating his ancestor's trip using only period instruments. Beforehand, he meets a colourful cast of characters to learn whether men really have better directional skills than women, how cells, eels, and spaceships navigate; and how tragedy results from GPS glitches. He interviews a cabby who has memorized every street in London, sails on a Haitian cargo sloop, and visits the site of a secret navigational cult in Greece. At the heart of Foy's story is this fact: navigation and the brain's memory centers are inextricably linked. As Foy unravels the secret behind Halvor's death, he also discovers why forsaking our navigation skills in favor of GPS may lead not only to Alzheimers and other diseases of memory, but to losing a key part of what makes us human.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

George Michelsen Foy is the author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence and twelve critically acclaimed novels. He was a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in fiction and his articles, reviews, and stories have been published by Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe, Harper's, the New York Times, and Men's Journal, among others. He teaches creative writing at NYU and is married with two children. Foy divides his time between coastal Massachusetts and New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flatiron Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250052688
• ISBN 13: 9781250052681
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible