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

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A wise and insightful exploration of human navigation, what it means to be lost, and how we find our way.How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? Come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we’ve never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it’s 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 reporter’s 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 the natural and built environments.A beguiling mix of storytelling and science, From Here to There covers the full spectrum of human navigation and spatial understanding. In an age of GPS and Google Maps, Bond urges us to exercise our evolved navigation skills and reap the surprising cognitive rewards.

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This is a well-written book but half of it is a fairly boring neuroanatomy lecture about rat neurons. The whole book reads like a 225-page New Yorker article - something Malcolm Gladwell might write. The chapters that focus on the psychology of people when they are lost and the things that cause them to make an already bad situation even worse are fascinating, as are the chapters comparing getting lost in the wilderness versus the city. The author reinforces his theories and observations with exhaustive footnotes and citations, as any good investigative journalist should do; the reader is confident that everything in the book is accurate. I learned a lot from this book and I'd recommend it for anyone with an interest in the outdoors, hiking or wilderness adventure.

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