Coconino Community College

Please join us at CCC's Page Center, or on Zoom, for this Comet Talk!

Several hundred years ago, in an age before satellites, radar or even complete maps, it was very challenging navigating the open seas where there were no landmarks. But clever humans from different parts of the world (including the Vikings, the Indians (people from India) and other seafaring people) boldly and successfully navigated the open oceans using the stars, basic calculus, and simple but ingenious tools. This lecture will examine and demonstrate the tools and methods of those curious and inventive seafarers.

Presenter Steven Law is a poet and Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist. He’s the author of “Gone. Encounters with Awe, Wonder and Reverence While Exploring the American West” (Middle Creek Publishing, 2024), and "Polished", a book of poems about exploring the Colorado Plateau by foot and by raft (Westbow Press, 2015). 

Steven is an award-winning journalist, and a Contributing Writer for Panorama: the Journal of Travel Place and Nature. His travel essays have won numerous Gold and Silver awards at the Travelers Tales Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing.

He has worked as a farmer, short-order cook, waiter, journalist, travel writer, newspaper editor, magazine editor, Grand Canyon river guide, overland guide, and public relations coordinator.

He is a master of Sabaku Yoku Meditation.

He lives in northern Arizona with his wife and two daughters.