John Bendall

Kendall's Longitude

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers, K1, K2 and K3. This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history. K2's first voyage, accompanied by the young Nelson, was nearly its last in the crushing Arctic ice. The next two expeditions saw it survive kidnappings, nautical intrigue, and gunpowder plots of the American revolutionary wars. The slave coasts of Africa followed. Bligh took K2 on the Bounty, but lost it in a fight with the mutineers in 1789. It was recovered by an American Quaker from Nantucket, only to be stolen by the Spanish. It rode on mules along the Andes before sailing into the Opium Wars. K2 finally returned to Greenwich in 1963. DRAMATIC, THREE NATION 'STORY OF TIME'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781788239417
• ISBN-10: 1788239415
• Artikelnr.: 56404474

Autorenporträt

A career ¿nancier, former hedge fund CEO, husband, father, and top flight polo player, John Bendall is the author of the Preston James series, of which ]ackPot is the ¿rst installment. He lives on the Upper Eastside with his wife and their hunting dog Alfred. Bendall is currently working on his memoir, entitled Undue Diligence.