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Land Navigation Handbook: The Sierra Club Guide to Map and Compass

Every outdoorsperson at on time or another needs to chart a course in the wilderness. In "Land Navigation Handbook" an expert navigator combines his map-and-compass skills with a special concern for the needs of the wilderness wanderer to create a comprehensive primer for the beginning pathfinder and the veteran hiker. Subjects include:

Choosing and using a compass

Reading topographic maps

Measuring distances and estimating travel times

Altimeter navigation

Navigation using the sun and stars, including instructions for the tropics and Southern Hemisphere

The book also includes a specially prepared five-color foldout topographical map plus 70 drawings and photographs.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 236
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780871563316
  • Release date
  • 1983