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Since humankind first looked up at the stars, they identified patterns in the stars, told stories about them and developed astronomy.

Julia Jones, Yachting Monthly's literary reviewer wades through The Practical Guide to Celestial Navigation by Phil Somerville

Download 23.59 MB Will learnt the art of celestial navigation in his 20s and he is now one of the world’s leading ocean race navigators. He has competed in the Sydney to Hobart race many times. He was navigating during the 1998 race when a freak storm hit off the coast of Eden. Will’s yacht was upended by a giant wave. He and his crew found themselves trapped upside down for five long minutes, before another wave pounded them back upright, then broke the mast. He’s also raced around the w...

Cornell attended secondary school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for four years, beginning in 1917, the year in which his father died of leukemia. Cornell’s formal education ended when he graduated from Andover in 1921, at which time he returned to live with his mother, who had moved from Nyack, New York, with Cornell’s younger brother, Robert, to Queens. In 1929 the Cornell family moved into a home at 3708 Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens, where Cornell would remain, rath...