Bustle, 9 Travel Books That Will Seriously Spark Your Summer Wanderlust rich exploration.For readers curious about nature, science, the human brain, and how we navigate the world.
To do this, she travels the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific - no GPS required. Science Magazine O'Connor looks at not only how mastering navigation is integral to the human race, but also how cognitive mapping skills are actually good for our health. General audiences and experts in navigation and cognition will likely learn something new here. Sydney Morning Herald O'Connor's coverage of the cognitive map theory-one of the most eminent theories in the field-is deep and broad.
Sounds a clarion call for us to put down the smartphone, step outside, and experience our surroundings in the way ancient humans did - before we lose the ability altogether. There are many reasons why people should make efforts to improve their geographical literacy, and O'Connor hits on many in this excellent book-devouring it makes for a good start. O'Connor talked to just the right people in just the right places, and her narrative is a marvel of storytelling on its own merits, erudite but lightly worn. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, depression and PTSD. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. O'Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision-especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. Kirkus (Starred Review) In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.Ī marvel of storytelling.
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