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*
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