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The Longitude Prize - Dash, Joan Dash
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John Harrison, a British clockmaker, spends 40 years in the 18th century working on a machine which could be used to accurately determine longitude, the east-west location, at sea. Set in a historical framework, telling of shipwrecks and politics, Dash presents the story of one man's creative vision. B&W illustrations.

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The Longitude Prize 2000, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780374346362

Hardcover