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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 75,398 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 13,993 ratings
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The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
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3.91 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
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3.93 avg rating — 562 ratings
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Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
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3.61 avg rating — 303 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 55,447 ratings
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Measuring the World
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3.73 avg rating — 21,584 ratings
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
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4.12 avg rating — 5,361 ratings
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The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
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3.90 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
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3.34 avg rating — 497 ratings
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The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce
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4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy
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3.87 avg rating — 506 ratings
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Drawing the Line : How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America
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3.94 avg rating — 97 ratings
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
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4.08 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.18 avg rating — 18,585 ratings
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
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3.97 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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4.04 avg rating — 4,184 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 66,734 ratings
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The Mapmakers
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3.87 avg rating — 417 ratings
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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3.60 avg rating — 2,826 ratings
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An Atlas Of Anglo-Saxon England
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4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution
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4.23 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Te Kauhanga: A Tale of Space
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4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
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3.75 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy
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4.18 avg rating — 824 ratings
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The Singing Line
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3.71 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and North America
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4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Sextant: The Elegant Instrument That Guided the Great Explorers, and a Young Man's First Journey Across the Atlantic
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3.97 avg rating — 781 ratings
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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
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3.63 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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Rounding the Horn: Being The Story Of Williwaws And Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries And Naked Natives -- a Deck's-eye View Of Cape Horn
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4.15 avg rating — 341 ratings
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The Piri Reis Map of 1513
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4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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How to Lie with Maps
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3.57 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 75,310 ratings
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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3.84 avg rating — 4,811 ratings
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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3.69 avg rating — 4,427 ratings
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Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities
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3.76 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
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3.88 avg rating — 717 ratings
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Andrew Ellicott: His Life and Letters
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
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3.63 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
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3.86 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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3.84 avg rating — 16,254 ratings
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Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and its Tributaries
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
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4.37 avg rating — 755 ratings
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Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
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3.62 avg rating — 2,150 ratings
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La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States - Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization
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4.02 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
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3.87 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
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4.01 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Magellan's Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation
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3.97 avg rating — 951 ratings
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
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4.02 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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4.04 avg rating — 10,393 ratings
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The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
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3.87 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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Magellan. Der Mann und seine Tat
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4.42 avg rating — 5,676 ratings
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Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition
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3.72 avg rating — 250 ratings
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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3.91 avg rating — 2,004 ratings
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A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
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3.33 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Tycho Brahe: Mapping the Heavens
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
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4.07 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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The Essential Galileo
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3.82 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
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3.50 avg rating — 106 ratings
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On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
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4.09 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination
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3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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3.66 avg rating — 2,116 ratings
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Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History
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3.62 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series)
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4.03 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Everest: The Man and the Mountain
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A History of Spaces
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3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Rocks to riches: The story of Australia's national geological survey
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Ordnance Survey: Map makers to Britain since 1791
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The Practical Surveyor: Or the Art of Land-Meafuring, Made Easy
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Mr. Surveyor Thomson: Early Days in Otago and Southland
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The surveyors,: The story of the founding of Darwin
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Benjamin Banneker
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3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Tadataka Ino: The Japanese Land-Surveyor
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The Civilized Surveyor: Thomas Mitchell & Australian Aboriginals
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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W. Whitfield Mills: Experiences with Darwin survey & overland telegraph parties and discovery of Alice Spring : from SA to WA by camel
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King of the Australian Coast: The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817–1822
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Mariners Are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and <i>H. M. S. Beagle</i> in Australia 1837-1843
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Beaufort of the Admiralty: The Life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Colonel William Light Founder of a City
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World
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3.68 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Quest for Longitude
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the horizons of Space and Time
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3.90 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Great Race
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3.84 avg rating — 156 ratings
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