Product Description

A practical guide to learning or improving your navigation with a map and a compass. This book is aimed at the beginner to the world of walking as well as those who have been using map and compasses for a while but would like to improve. Using plenty of diagrams, OS and Harvey Maps to illustate points in the text, this book takes you logically through the various stages necessary to learning map and compass skills thoroughly. The book includes a look at GPS systems and computer-based mapping programmes. It closes with suggestions for practicing your new found skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12078 in Books
• Brand: Cicerone
• Published on: 2003-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .43" h x 5.48" w x 8.48" l, .65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

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• Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon
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From the Publisher
Having the skills of navigation at your disposal is a liberating experience. Getting away from the crowds, inventing your own routes, discovering new areas, and perhaps most importantly giving you the confidence to do it yourself, is all part of making your outdoor experience more enjoyable. This comprehensive guide to navigation is aimed at giving you the incentive to do this. With the author's anecdotes and handy hints close by, those new to using the map and compass, and those who have already mastered navigational skills, will find this guide inspiration enough to get 'out there' and experience the outdoors safely and with fun.

From the Author
This has been a joy to write. I have used over 20 years of teaching experience as a basis for this book, with many practical examples inside from those I've taught and those who have given me new ways of doing things.

A map and compass can be used in many ways on the hills, but I have approached the book by including what works for me and colleagues I have worked with.

About the Author
Pete Hawkins trained as a geography teacher and taught in schools for a year before escaping to the Peak National Park's Environmental Centre for an outdoor job. He took over map and compass training and has since written for a variety of outdoor magazines. He now leads walking holidays around the world from his base in the Peak District.