The essential wilderness navigator

Description

Now with full-color topographic maps and featuring the latest on electronic navigation, The Essential Wilderness Navigator is the clearest and most up-to-date route-finding primer available. Providing readers with exercises for developing a directional 'sixth sense, ' tips on mastering the art of map- and compass-reading, and comprehensive updates on a range of technological advances, this perennially popular guide is more indispensable than ever.  Read more... Abstract: Teaches readers how to observe - to see, smell, hear, and sense the details of the environment around them. This guide includes: the basics of global positioning system (GPS) navigation and CD-ROM maps; a color section on reading topographical maps.  Read more... Content: What's new in this edition -- Sense of direction -- Locating your sixth sense -- How not to get lost -- Why we get lost -- How to "get found" -- Maps: World in your hands -- Types of maps -- three dimensions into two -- Language of maps -- Reading the terrain -- latitude and longitude -- scale -- distance -- direction -- Putting yourself on the map -- Map care and gear -- Compasses: What compasses can do -- Earth's magnetic field -- How compasses work -- Make your own -- declination -- Compass types -- Orienting your compass to magnetic north -- Orienting your compass to geographic north -- Bearings -- Deviation -- Following a compass course -- Testing your skills -- Navigation: Map and compass combined -- Orienting the map with a compass -- Finding a course from the map -- Locating a mapped object in the field -- Locating an observed object on the map -- Bearing from a mapped object -- Other lines of position -- warning bearings -- Crossing lines of position -- Returning to the same spot -- Running fix -- Finding distance off -- Measuring distance covered -- Dead reckoning -- Navigation in use: Route planning -- Practice of navigation -- On the trail -- Hitting what you aim for -- Landmarks as guides -- Sources of error -- When you are lost -- Looking to nature for clues: Finding north and south at noon -- North and south from a shadow -- Quick but inaccurate -- Movements of sunrise and sunset -- Bearings from sunrise and sunset -- Polaris -- Southern cross -- Other stars -- Extreme environments: Mountains -- Snow -- Deserts -- Electronic navigation: GPS 101 -- Getting started -- E-Maps: Topos and charts on CD-ROM -- Appendix: Bearings of sunrise and sunset -- Declination corrections -- Metric conversion tables -- Orienteering -- Sources of maps, books, compasses, videos, GPS manufacturers, and electronic mapmakers -- Travel Plan -- Index -- Acknowledgments.