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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue: Wayfinding
PART ONE
Arctic
The Last Roadless Place
Memoryscapes
Why Children Are Amnesiacs
Birds, Bees, Wolves, and Whales
Navigation Made Us Human
The Storytelling Computer
PART TWO
Australia
Supernomads
Dreamtime Cartography
Space and Time in the Brain
Among the Lightning People
You Say Left, I Say North
PART THREE
Oceania
Empiricism at Harvard
Astronauts of Oceania
Navigating Climate Change
This Is Your Brain on GPS
Lost Tesla
Epilogue: Our Genius Is Topophilia
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Also by M. R. O’Connor
About the Author
Copyright
WAYFINDING. Copyright © 2019 by M. R. O’Connor. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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“The Experiment with a Rat,” by Carl Rakosi, from The Collected Poems of Carl Rakosi (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1986). Permission granted by Daniel K. Nordby, Literary Executor for the Estate of Carl Rakosi (aka Callman Rawley).
Cover photographs: landscape © Addictive Creative/Offset.com; starry night © National Geographic/Offset.com.
The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN 978-1-250-09696-8 (hardcover)
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First Edition: April 2019
* Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a type of neuroimaging that detects changes in the brain’s blood flow to infer brain activity.
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