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Title: Picturing the voyages
Review: This book is well done, with fantastic pictures and direct text. Perhaps my favorite pictures included the large groups of red knots and snow geese. The narratives on navigation and flight plans were particularly good at explaining what can be complex. The examples were from both North America and Europe, and as a North American the problems of crossing the Sahara were new to me. The maps really illustrate the points, and the map with the gnomic versus Mercator projection was a great example. A step up from the average "coffee table" picture book.
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