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Wilderness Navigation Handbook
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Designed for both land and water use, this comprehensive guide helps unlock the complexity of map and chart reading as it relates to navigation. Beginning with detailed technical descriptions of the tools of navigation—a compass, an altimeter, a GPS system, and a sextant—this handbook shows how to use these tools either individually or in combination with each other to navigate any area. Factors that cause tools and techniques to fail are discussed, such as why an altimeter often shows the wrong elevation, a GPS position is sometimes off track, and the sun often points in an unexpected direction. Twenty-one real-life scenarios provide practical wisdom for even the most intrepid navigator. Specific information on using the moon for directions and the stars for position, measuring boiling water temperature for elevation, map projections, map datums, great circle routes, and the UTM/UPS grid system is included.
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Touche Publishing; September 2005
200 pages; ISBN 9780973252743
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Title: Wilderness Navigation Handbook
Author: Fred Touche
200 pages; ISBN 9780973252743
Read online, or download in secure EPUB or secure PDF format
Title: Wilderness Navigation Handbook
Author: Fred Touche
Buy, download and read Wilderness Navigation Handbook (eBook) by Fred Touche today!
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0973252731
9780973252705
9780973252729
9780973252736
9780973252743