From Here to There, Michael Bond
From Here to There, Michael Bond
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From Here to There
The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way

Author: Michael Bond

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2020


Synopsis

How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places weve never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but its also critical to our species evolutionary success. In From Here to There, Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and found?Polynesian sailors, orienteering champions, early aviators?and surveys the science of human navigation.Navigation skills are deeply embedded in our biology. The ability to find our way over large distances in prehistoric times gave Homo sapiens an advantage, allowing us to explore the farthest regions of the planet. Wayfinding also shaped vital cognitive functions outside the realm of navigation, including abstract thinking, imagination, and memory. Bond brings a reporters curiosity and nose for narrative to the latest research from psychologists, neuroscientists, animal behaviorists, and anthropologists. He also turns to the people who design and expertly maneuver the world we navigate: search-and-rescue volunteers, cartographers, ordnance mappers, urban planners, and more. The result is a global expedition that furthers our understanding of human orienting in natural and built environments.

About Michael Bond

Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 13 January 1926 and educated at Presentation College, Reading. He served in the Royal Air Force and the British Army before working as a cameraman for BBC TV for 19 years. In 2015, Michael was awarded a CBE for his services to children’s literature, to add to the OBE he received in 1997. Michael died in 2017, leaving behind one of the great literary legacies of our time.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ali on May 25, 2020

There have been a rush of books recently about navigation and the brain. Including, rather confusingly Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the WorldWayfinding, released about 18 months before this one. This is a great trend, and did mean I was already familiar with most of the......more

Goodreads review by Tonstant on June 26, 2020

From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way is a fascinating exploration of how we learn to find our way as children and how we may risk unlearning it from lack of use thanks to GPS or from the damage of Alzheimer’s Disease. Through that arc of life, Bond explores the diffe......more

Goodreads review by Kiran on April 05, 2023

I found Michael Shaw Bond’s book, Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way, to be an insightful resource for understanding how we as humans orient ourselves and navigate through the world, in all it’s complexity. Bond is skilled at explaining very complex scientific concepts (......more

Goodreads review by Fien on November 16, 2023

Echt ontzettend interessant boek!! Ik moet echt meer non fictie lezen. Heel fascinerend over hoe het werkt om te verdwalen (letterlijk en figuurlijk) en hoe verschillende omgevingen of levensstijlwn invloed hebben op hoe goed je kan navigeren. Vooral over hoe het komt dat sommige mensen een beter ri......more

Goodreads review by Rosamund on December 28, 2021

Fascinating material on the neuroscience and psychology of finding our way and getting lost.......more