Navigation (eBook)

Techniques and skills for walkers

Pete Hawkins (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024 | 2. Auflage
152 Seiten
Cicerone Press (Verlag)
978-1-78362-788-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This pocket handbook to navigation will help you master the necessary map and compass skills for mountain walking. Chapters include map scales, symbols and contours, grid references, map reading, bearings, route planning and night and bad-weather navigation, as well as navigating with a GPS.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Preface by Alan Hinkes OBE
Foreword

Chapter 1 Why use a map and compass?
Chapter 2 Map essentials - scales and grids
Chapter 3 Map symbols and contours
Chapter 4 Walking with the map
Chapter 5 Introducing the compass
Chapter 6 Choosing your compass
Chapter 7 Taking a bearing from the map
Chapter 8 Taking a bearing from the ground
Chapter 9 Walking with map and compass
Chapter 10 Route planning
Chapter 11 Night and bad weather navigation
Chapter 12 Technology - GPS and computer mapping
Chapter 13 Where now?

Appendix A Answers to questions
Appendix B Useful contacts and addresses
Appendix C Further reading
Appendix D Navigational aid

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2024
• Zusatzinfo: over 100 explanatory photos, diagrams and map extracts
• Verlagsort: Kendal
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: basic map reading • bearing • book for map reading • compass navigation • how to use compass • map compass • map reading • mountain navigation • navigation for beginners
• ISBN-10: 1-78362-788-3 / 1783627883
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78362-788-2 / 9781783627882