Follow the Map
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless…
Category: Navigation
A Return to the Stars
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And…
Follow the Waves
“One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature sill have much to tell us which we cannot…
Follow the Black Birds
“A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine” “From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.” The Vikings had an uncanny way of judging speed and wind direction, recognizing…
Follow the Stars
“According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel. These people, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Erythraen Sea having migrated to the…
The Navigators
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” William G.T. Shedd I must confess that, whenever I quote William G.T. Shedd, I am usually standing…
