The Last Navigator
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Description
Author: Thomas, Stephen D.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Pub Date: 1987
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Book: Good. Binding tight. Grey cloth over blue boards. Dust Jacket: Good. Very light edge wear. NOT price clipped. In mylar.
Notes: Signed and inscribed on the title page “For ______, Fair winds & fast passages Great Good luck!” Thomas was the host of PBS’s “This Old House”. There are NO signed copies available. Navigating the Pacific without compasses, charts or instruments, the last few (now ancient) navigators use only their knowledge of the stars, the waves, and birds to steer their hand-carved canoes from place to place on the ocean. The main character of the book, the master (last) navigator, Mau Piailug, died in 2010. It’s also a memoir of Thomas, a young man wanting to learn a dying skill.
