Wayfinding

Wayfinding
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9781250200235
ISBN-13 : 1250200237
Rating : 4/5 (237 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Wayfinding by : M. R. O'Connor

Download or read book Wayfinding written by M. R. O'Connor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “marvel of storytelling,” a journalist pursues the mysteries of human navigation across continents and deep within the brain (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. In Wayfinding, M.R. O’Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush, and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O’Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the brain, and how exercising our cognitive mapping skills can improve the health of our hippocampus. She also talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, depression, and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species’ profound capacity for exploration, memory, and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place.


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'[A] fascinating, incisive account of how the human brain evolved to keep us orientated . . . Beautifully written and researched.' Isabella Tree, author of Wild