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About this book
"A NATURAL STORYTELLER" Mary Roach "BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING" Matthew Gavin Frank "CAPTIVATING... WILL ALTER THE WAY YOU SEE AND MOVE THROUGH THE WORLD" M. R. O'Connor "AS ENTERTAINING AS IT IS ENLIGHTENING" Geographical Magazine, Book of the Month Within our heads, we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have - older even than language - and in Dark and Magical Places, Christopher Kemp embarks on a journey to discover the remarkable extent of what our minds can do. From the secrets of supernavigators to the strange, dreamlike environments inhabited by people with 'place blindness', he will explore the myriad ways in which we find our way. Kemp explains the cutting-edge neuroscience that is transforming our understanding of it - and tries to answer why, for a species with a highly-sophisticated internal navigation system that evolved over millions of years, do humans get lost such a lot? "I WAS THRILLED TO DISCOVER THIS BOOK" Robert Moor
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- Chapter 1 Where Is Amanda Eller?
- Chapter 2 Pink Seahorses
- Chapter 3 In the Firing Fields
- Chapter 4 The Perception of Doors
- Chapter 5 The Obligate Symbolists
- Chapter 6 Dead Reckoning
- Chapter 7 Somewhere East of Timbuktu
- Chapter 8 Your Brain, My Brain, His Brain, Her Brain
- Chapter 9 The Future
- Chapter 10 What Happened to Amanda Eller
- Appendix I What to Do If You’re Lost in the Wild
- Appendix II How to Become a Better Navigator
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index