Description

A fully-illustrated version of the worldwide best seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in pictures and words the epic quest to resolve the best scientific issue of the eighteenth and three preceding generations: identifying what sort of chief might determine his vessel's place at sea. Frequently through the ages of exploration, trips ended in catastrophe when cargo and staff were possibly lost at sea or wrecked upon the stones of an urgent landfall. A large number of lives and the fortunes of countries strung on the decision for the longitude problem.