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WAYFINDING - MICHAEL BOND KARTONIERT (TB)

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