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In 1844, George Michelsen Foy's great-great grandfather, captain of your Norwegian cargo ship, perished at sea after getting lost in a snowstorm. Foy chooses to unravel the secret surrounding Halvor Michelsen's death - and the roots of his own obsession with navigation - by re-creating his ancestor's trip using only period instruments. Beforehand, he satisfies a colorful solid of character types to learn whether men really have better directional skills than women; how cells, eels, and spaceships navigate; and exactly how tragedy results from Gps unit glitches. He interviews a cabby who may have memorized every street in London, sails over a Haitian cargo sloop, and goes to the site of your key navigational cult in Greece. At the heart of Foy's report is this truth: Navigation and the brain's memory centers are inextricably associated. As Foy unravels the secret behind Halvor's death, he also discovers why forsaking our navigation skills and only Gps unit may lead not only to Alzheimer's and other diseases of memory but to losing a key part of why is us human.
