Longitude
by Dava Sobel
Taste attributes: documentaryhistoricalrobots/ai/spaceslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticintricatelinearbig & variedemotive & stirringall consuming questunderdog triumphssolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeA grounded, original non-fiction book: serious and moving. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.2 / 5
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About This Book
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
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- Author
- Dava Sobel
- Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 192
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- Open Library
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