Be Expert with Map and Compass
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- ISBN13: 9780470407653
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The classic map and compass navigation guide-revised for the age of GPS
GPS devices are fantastic, but they can break, get lost, or easily be hampered by weather conditions, building basic map and compass skills essential for anyone who spends time outdoors. This well loved, simple-to-use orienteering handbook has been helping people find their way for more than fifty years. Now updated to include information on GPS as well as current Web sites, references, sources, and photographs, it remains the book of choice for professional outdoorsmen, novice orienteers, and outdoor organizations as well as teachers, scout leaders, recreational hikers, hunters, and others around the world.
Coverage includes understanding map symbols; traveling by map alone, by compass alone, or by map and compass together; finding bearings; sketching maps; and traveling in the wilderness.
- Clarifies basic map and compass skills clearly
- Fully updated edition, including information on GPS
- Includes up-to-date Web site addresses, references, and sources
- Features a fresh, rugged design
- Ideal book for beginners
If you’re looking to feel more comfortable in the wilderness, this updated guide is an indispensable reference.
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I wanted to get into the world of orienteering, so I chose that I’d go straight to the top. This book IS full of useful information, but I find that I was able to skip around lacking losing any of the book’s substance.
Like I wrote: not terrible, not excellent.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I thought this book would help me use GPS with a map when I’m in the wilderness. But there’s nearly nothing about GPS in this book and what is there just tells you that GPS isn’t useful for orienteering.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Learn how to navigate in the woods with this guide to the compass. All boy scouts will like these tips. This is the most comprehensive guide of its kind.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Very excellent basic map & compass course. Proper training in the military gave me a excellent effective knowledge and the confidence to use it. This book will help instill persons same principles.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I’m giving this this edition one star because of the information that follows.
This edition states–right on the take in–that it “now provides information on GPS.” That is factually right but very misleading. I had expected information about how to use GPS along with a map or compass, or using GPS only. But as a replacement for, the very few statements about GPS just tell you that GPS is BAD, and maps and compasses are excellent.
If you look in the table of contents, you won’t see any chapter about GPS. Go to the pointer and you see only three (that’s right, three) pages which mention GPS. Page two tells us how GPS doesn’t work well in forests, canyons, etc. Then go to page 14 – 15, and you’ll find that Ms. Elgin and the publishers were in such a hasten to cash in on the success of the original version, they couldn’t even get the pointer right. There is NOTHING on these pages about GPS, but of course if there were, it would only be, again, that GPS is BAD and maps and compasses are excellent.
Perhaps the publisher missed that on page 20, the book states that maps tell you about the geographic features of the area,”not just how to get there, as with a Global Positioning System.” After this, I stopped reading, although I did look throughout the book for something useful about GPS. I didn’t see anything, and the pointer doesn’t contradict this as, again, there are only three pages which supposedly provide information on GPS.
It’s unfortunate that the leader’s daughter establish it necessary to by corrupt means attempt to sell more books with this sham “revised edition.” I’ve ordered the previous edition.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5