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Presidential Address. Navigation: A Changing Trade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

Norman Dahl
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As the title indicates, this paper is principally concerned with navigation as a profession, rather than the essential activity of finding the way there and back again that is continually practised by the whole of humankind. By a profession, I mean the acquisition of a set of defined skills through training and the exercising of those skills as a way of earning a living for most, if not all, of a working lifetime. And looking at the profession of navigation, two interesting facts emerge; one is that it is not a particularly old profession - a century and a half, maybe. The second is that it is not likely to get very much older, at least in the form we know it today.

Keywords

1. History2. Small craft navigation3. Economics
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , May 1992 , pp. 151 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1992

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