Wilderness Navigation Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & Gps, 3rd Edition
Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & GPS, 3rd Edition by Bob Burns is published by Mountaineers Books in 2015 and spans 176 pages. This edition serves as a comprehensive update to the widely used navigation textbook in outdoor education, focusing on essential skills for safe wilderness travel. It emphasizes the importance of map and compass skills while integrating modern navigation tools, ensuring readers are well-equipped for various outdoor scenarios.
In this edition, readers will find enhanced clarity with chapter objectives and summaries, along with “skills check” mini-quizzes and practice problems to reinforce learning. The book includes updated descriptions of contemporary navigation tools, such as maps, compasses, altimeters, and GPS receivers, as well as expanded content on GPS technology and non-GPS navigational techniques. Additional resources, including recommended websites and apps, are also provided to support readers in their outdoor adventures, making it a valuable resource for those interested in hiking, mountaineering, and outdoor skills.
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Over 100K copies sold
- The official navigation textbook used in outdoor education courses by thousands of students
- Map and compass skills remain the foundation for traveling safely in the wilderness
This new third edition is a major and complete update of the popular textbook:
- Improved throughout for clarity, with chapter objectives presented at the beginning of each chapter and summaries, “skills check” mini-quizzes, and practice problems listed at the end
- Updated descriptions of the most current maps, compasses, altimeters, and Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers
- Updated declination maps for the United States and the world (declination changes over time and compasses must be adjusted for a specific location to provide correct readings)
- Much-expanded GPS chapter, including interfacing the GPS receiver with the home computer, maximizing battery life, and using the GPS function on a “smart” phones (along with a description of their limitations)
- Additional information on non-GPS navigational techniques
- Recommended websites, apps, and other sources of useful navigational information
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