A fascinating investigation of our ability to navigate: from the earliest humans, to cutting-edge spatial neuroscience, and the increasing loss, in today's world, of our ability to find our way.
Michael Bond, who won the British Psychology Society Prize 2015 for The Power of Others, is a freelance journalist and former senior editor and reporter at New Scientist.
Fascinating . . . Bond offers stories of phenomenal feats of
navigation . . . Ultimately, "we are spatial beings" and
Wayfinding skilfully and at times movingly makes the case
for how deeply that is true. * Sunday Times *
In this fascinating book about our gift for what Michael
Bond calls wayfinding, he makes a compelling case that our ancient
abilities to get from A to B aren't just a matter of geography. *
New Statesman *
Michael Bond's fascinating, incisive account of how the human brain
evolved to keep us orientated throws up intriguing questions about
how we live today . . . Beautifully written and researched; I
hugely enjoyed this book. -- Isabella Tree, author of
Wilding
To understand anything, we first need to put it in some sort of
order. A sense of direction is essential to the development of
intelligence. Does this mean our world of automated travel and
route-dictating apps is making us stupid? Michael Bond investigates
in Wayfinding. * New Scientist *
One of the most fascinating books I have read for a long
while, not least because of how it opens up so many other
subjects. * Scotsman *
I hope this book will inspire people to explore and
experiment with [their navigational] abilities, for if they do,
they will be in for a wonderful surprise. -- Robin
Knox-Johnston
An excellently researched popular science book which
explains how people - including experienced travellers - get lost,
and why some individuals have superior navigational skills than
others. * Spectator *
A fascinating excursion into the very nature of exploration.
Absorbing stuff. -- Benedict Allen
Compelling . . . Don't be afraid to lose yourself in these pages:
you won't be disappointed. * The Lady *
If this was only a science book about how we navigate - Inuit
methods, explorers' feats, extraordinary animal abilities, brain
scans, men v women - it would be compellingly good. However,
Michael Bond goes further: he weaves in stories of people who got
lost, from long-distance walkers to dementia sufferers, looking at
what happens in the mind. And threaded through the book is a
thoughtful argument about how our ability to find our way is
integral to our nature - and how it is being undermined by
technology * Sunday Times *
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