Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond (Hardcover, 2020)

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The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years places we have visited only once. These are remarkable achievements. In Wayfinding, Michael Bond explores how we do it: how our brains make the 'cognitive maps' that keep us orientated, even in places that we don't know. He considers how we relate to places, and asks how our understanding of the world around us affects our psychology and behaviour. The way we think about physical space has been crucial to our evolution: the ability to navigate over large distances in prehistoric times gave Homo sapiens an advantage over the rest of the human family. Children are instinctive explorers, developing a spatial understanding as they roam. And yet today few of us make use of the wayfaring skills that we inherited from our peripatetic ancestors. Most of us have little idea what we may be losing. Bond seeks an answer to the question of why some of us are so much better at finding our way than others. He also tackles the controversial subject of sex differences in navigation, and finally tries to understand why being lost can be such a devastating psychological experience. For readers of writers as different as Robert Macfarlane and Oliver Sacks, Wayfinding is a book that can change our sense of ourselves.

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PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139781509841066
eBay Product ID (ePID)24046525391

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameWayfinding: the Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way
LanguageEnglish
SubjectScience, Biology
Publication Year2020
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaDevelopmental Psychology
AuthorMichael Bond
FormatHardcover

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Item Height243 mm
Item Weight522 g
Item Width162 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorMichael Bond

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