Incredible Journeys: Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019

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In reading this book, I have again and again been struck dumb with admiration by the extraordinary skills of the animal navigators.

Although Barrie does mention larger animals, like crocodiles and elephants, he admits their navigational tools remain a mystery. I was struck by the devastation of colonization on their cultures and how it negatively affected their survival and coping skills.

This is one of three books dealing with navigation released in as many months - with the others being Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World and Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia.

Plus you had the italicized "extra helping" at the end of each chapter that could have been more artfully added into the main text. As Supernavigators makes clear, a stunning array of species command senses and skills—and arguably, types of intelligence—beyond our own. The complexity of animal navigation is truly baffling and there has been so many hypothesis for different taxa groups.Now this might involve navigating miles across the ocean or sky but yet so many of them achieve this feat regularly. My last book, SEXTANT, was inspired by the life-changing experience of sailing across the Atlantic in the days before GPS had reduced navigation to a matter of pushing buttons.