The Living Chart is a globe you sail across, with the charts, the log and
the tactical plates open beside it. On a phone there is nowhere to put any
of that.
Open it on a laptop or a tablet in landscape and it comes into its own.
AUBREY’S WORLD
THE LIVING CHART
BOOK I · MASTER AND COMMANDER · THE SOPHIE'S CRUISE · 1800–01
GROIGNARD · CARTE DE LA MER MEDITERRANEE · c.1745
ERAN LAOR COLLECTION · NLI · PUBLIC DOMAIN
AUDIO · HEART OF OAK (PD) · SEA WAVES · GANESH MOHAN T · CC BY-SA 4.0
HMS SOPHIE · AT SEA
APRIL 1800
VESSEL
HMS SOPHIE · BRIG-SLOOP · 14 GUNS
LEG
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POSITION
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GAZETTEER · AFTER DEAN KING, HARBORS & HIGH SEAS CHARTS · PERIOD SOURCES, PD
GLOBE the living world · MAP the flat charts · the TIMELINE sails her · C hides the furniture · SPACE plays/pauses
ACTION
WIND NNE
IT REALLY HAPPENED
HMS SPEEDY & EL GAMO · 6 MAY 1801
Cochrane, 14 guns & 54 men against 32 & 319 — O’Brian changed the names.
RAISING THE MEDITERRANEAN…
THE LIVING CHART
Aubrey’s World
BEING A CHART OF THE VOYAGES OF JACK AUBREY & STEPHEN MATURIN