Longitude Condition:Like New is a story written by

is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf

Now comes Lisa See’s highly anticipated new novel

Publication Date: 2011

hold me steady to the lamp

Longitude Condition:Like New is a story written byLongitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. Lacking the ability to measure longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea. At the heart of Dava Sobel's fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and horology stands the figure of John Harrison, self taught Yorkshire clockmaker, and his forty year