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Brainstorm

New book paints vivid picture of mariners’ world in the Age of Exploration

Historian Margaret Schotte takes readers back nearly 500 years to discover the multitude of skills that navigators acquired in the immense drive for commercial and naval dominance. The book traces the evolution of sailing expertise, showing how traditional knowledge blended with new scientific rigour. In world history, it wasn’t long ago when the oceans were […]