Navigators - Henry the Navigator, Diogo Cao, Mau Piailug, John Cabot, Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, Louis Aleno de St Alouarn, Marina Raskova (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Henry the Navigator, Diogo Cao, Mau Piailug, John Cabot, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Louis Aleno de St Alouarn, Marina Raskova, Hanno the Navigator, Fyodor Litke, Theodore Van Kirk, William Strickland, Denis of the Nativity, Harold Gatty, Bobby Goodman, Valerian Albanov, Yevgeniya Rudneva, Juan Diaz de Solis, Ahmad ibn M jid, George Windsor Earl, Sulaiman Al Mahri, Robert Sturmy, Tobias Furneaux, Martin Cortes de Albacar, Himilco the Navigator, Ivan Vasilyev, Samuel Wallis, Anders Holte, Aleksei Chirikov, Ivan Fyodorov, Sebastian de Ocampo, Charles-Marie Philippe de Kerhallet, Norman Baker. Excerpt: Pius "Mau" Piailug (pronounced; 1932 - July 12, 2010) was a Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal, best known as a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for deep-sea voyaging. Mau's Carolinian navigation system-which relies on navigational clues using the sun and stars, winds and clouds, seas and swells, and birds and fish-was acquired through rote learning passed down through teachings in the oral tradition. He earned the title of master navigator (palu) by the age of eighteen, around the time the first American missionaries arrived in Satawal. As he neared middle age, Mau grew concerned that the practice of navigation in Satawal would disappear as his people became acculturated to Western values. In the hope that the navigational tradition would be preserved for future generations, Mau shared his knowledge with the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS). With Mau's help, PVS used experimental archaeology to recreate and test lost Hawaiian navigational techniques on the H k le'a, a modern reconstruction of a double-hulled Hawaiian voyaging canoe. The successful, non-instrument sailing of H k le'a to Tahiti in 1976, proved the efficacy of Mau's navigational system to the world. To academi...