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.
- Author
- W.S. Kals
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- Sierra Club Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780871563316
- Release date
- 1983
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