Customer Reviews

Celestial navigation quick & easy

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This may be the worst-written and most poorly edited book I've ever seen. Full of maybe-even-interesting but absolutely useless, (not to mention repetitive) facts, factoids, and opinions having next to nothing to do with actually learning something about celestial navigation (example: "Dick Gordon, astronaut, has pointed out, that most photos of the moon are placed upside down".) Rife with typos, spelling errors, and punctuation errors that a second-grader wouldn't make, this "book" shouldn't even be in print, much less for sale. Nonetheless, if there were one thing I would suggest to make the book at least marginally worthwhile, it would be for the author to ask himself, "So what?" about every fact/factoid/opinion he chooses to include. 99% of this book left me wondering, "So what?"

Alas a have to join the last reviewer in most of his remarks. Though I liked the Analemma part which was quite interesting and somewhat useful, there is nothing in it which would help you in navigating with a sextant. The rest is indeed a collection of noncoherent sentences and topics. Might be interesting for a child but my advice for everyone else interested in celestial navigation is buy a better book

A totally unique way of explaining celestial navigation. It is clear and simple, with over 200 illustrations. You can understand a very complex subject.

Too many unnecessary pages, not a practical guide book.