Navigation: Techniques and skills for walkers
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This conveniently sized guide is an invaluable point of reference for all walkers. Written by an author with a wealth of experience teaching navigation skills, it provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the key techniques - giving you the confidence to navigate successfully with map and compass and to plan and execute your own routes. All topics are clearly referenced and easy to find. Chapters cover scales and grids, map symbols and contours, compasses, bearings, navigation on the hill, route planning and night and bad weather navigation. This new edition also incorporates new content on walking with a GPS device, with notes on how technology can complement map and compass. The text is illustrated with explanatory photos and diagrams as well as extracts from real maps and map keys, and - since the best way to learn is through experience - throughout the guide, practical exercises are suggested to help you practise and develop your skills. Perfect both for novices seeking an introduction to navigation and also those wishing to brush up on old skills, this book is an indispensable companion to mastering the essential techniques. These valuable skills will enhance not only your safety but also your enjoyment of the outdoors. Review: An excellent manual for England. - Should have published one for Canada where magnetic variation is everything. Grid references on 1:50000 and 1:25000 scales are everything. Section on resection might have been more useful and easily explained as triangulation. It took a while to realize that England has very little variation. This makes it easier to use a standard baseplate compass without the variation setting devices on more expensive models. The addition and subtraction knowledge for a basic model are essential in training at this level anyway. The format and graphics are the best I have seen. Coloured maps and photos and black and white diagrams used appropriately for best effect. Review: excellent - Excellent little book...easy to read and understand. Also includes a romer tucked into the cover...bonus.
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R**X
An excellent manual for England.
Should have published one for Canada where magnetic variation is everything. Grid references on 1:50000 and 1:25000 scales are everything. Section on resection might have been more useful and easily explained as triangulation. It took a while to realize that England has very little variation. This makes it easier to use a standard baseplate compass without the variation setting devices on more expensive models. The addition and subtraction knowledge for a basic model are essential in training at this level anyway. The format and graphics are the best I have seen. Coloured maps and photos and black and white diagrams used appropriately for best effect.
R**O
excellent
Excellent little book...easy to read and understand. Also includes a romer tucked into the cover...bonus.
L**A
Bion libro
Utile approccio teorico pratico io poi nisogna andare sul campo ma intanto qui si impara
P**E
Fanatastic book
Great instructional book. Small size so easy to carry and includes a plastic guage to aid map reading. I love walking and maps and wanted to refresh my map reading ability and this book is perfect for all levels. Overall great value and i would recommend it as a learning/refresher guide.
L**S
Practice exercises - scale inconsistent
Having done a map reading and navigation course out on the fells the leader recommended this book for further reading. The content is really useful and emphasises the skills I learned on the course, but some o the practice exercises in the book (i.e. the grid reference ones) don't match the scales on any compass or the Romer scale, rendering them useless! I spent ages trying to work out why my grid references didn't match the answers, and then realised all the scales were wrong. It must be an error in the printing of the book that no one thought to check the scales would print accurately! Other than that, a useful little book for learning the basics.
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