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Bernard Moitessier sailed single handed around the world in 1969 and published his accounts of this trip in 1971 in the book “The long Way”. This description comes from this book. Moitessier was a very seasoned sailor when he undertook the single handed round the world challenge in 1969. He opted out of the race…
Animal navigation is one of the great mysteries
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The Information Universe: On the Missing Link in Concepts of the Architecture of Reality
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The Elephant Whisperer by Laurence Anthony
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