Alan Gurney (–2012)
Autore di Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation
Sull'Autore
Alan Gurney is a former yacht designer and photographer, and is now a writer living in Suffolk, England.
Opere di Alan Gurney
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Informazioni generali
- Data di morte
- 2012-07-22
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Suffolk, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- yacht designer
Photographer
author - Breve biografia
- Alan Gurney is a former yacht designer and photographer living in Suffolk, England.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 444
- Popolarità
- #55,179
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 19
- Lingue
- 4
I liked learning how the compass was initially created and how it led to the discovery of magnetic variation and aided the development of our understanding of electricity and earth-as-magnet. I don't really need to know that there were playing cards with pictures of dudes digging for loadstones on them. And I definitely don't need an entire chapter devoted to explaining the origins, character, and ambitions of some quack of a compass entrepreneur.
And then there are the terms that go undefined by the author...and the lack of maps depicting relevant ship courses...and the convoluted sentences that end abruptly like staircases terminating in walls...and the muddled transitions that seem to exist purely to transition instead of assert anything meaningful...and the mis- and overuse of all forms of "irony"....
I really, really wanted to learn about the development and relevance of the compass, and what information on that topic I was able to extract from the text proved very interesting. But I am not going to waste any more time wading through all the irrelevant digressions and chortling but-did-you-also-knows to get to it. There has to be another way. ::insert compass pun here::… (altro)