A Wired Most Fascinating Book of the Year An important book that reminds us that navigation remains one of our most underappreciated arts. -- Sunday Times. -- Science A thoughtful argument about how our ability to find our way is integral to our nature.
Bond concludes that, by setting aside our GPS devices, by redesigning parts of our cities and play areas, and sometimes just by letting ourselves get lost, we can indeed revivify our ability to find our way, to the benefit of our inner world no less than the outer one.
He considers how our understanding of the world around us affects our psychology and helps us see how our reliance on technology may be changing who we are.
Bond tells stories of the lost and found--sailors, orienteering champions, early aviators--and explores why being lost can be such a devastating experience.
And yet today few of us make use of the wayFinding skills that we inherited From our nomadic ancestors.
Children are instinctive explorers, developing a spatial understanding as they roam.
In this beguiling mix of Science and storytelling, Michael Bond explores how we do it: how our brains make the cognitive maps that keep us orientated and how that anchors our sense of wellbeing. -- The Scotsman How is it that some of us can walk unfamiliar streets without Losing our way, while the rest of us struggle even with a GPS? Navigating in uncharted territory is a remarkable feat if you stop to think about it. --Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature\'s Signs If you want to understand what rats can teach us about better-planned cities, why walking into a different room can help you find your car keys, or how your brain\'s grid, border, and speed cells combine to give us a sense of direction, this book has all the answers.
A Wired Most Fascinating Book of the Year An important book that reminds us that navigation remains one of our most underappreciated arts
