Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, and GPS [Paperback]

Bob Burns (Author), Mike Burns (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1999

Explains the methods of wilderness navigation and includes thirty practice problems.

Editorial Reviews

Review

An ideal book for those who aspire to travel with precision in the backcountry. -- Lewiston Morning Tribune

An informative book on how to walk in the woods. -- Reel News

Even if you've never held a compass or GPS, you'll have an idea of how they work. -- Sweat magazine

If you're planning a wilderness excursion, swallow your pride and pick up Wilderness Navigation. -- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Required reading for anyone who spends time in the outdoors with a map and compass. -- St. Paul Pioneer Press

[E]ssentials for using a map and a compass as well as easy and practical techniques for using global positioning devices. --Willoughby (OH) News-Herald --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Bob Burns and Mike Burns are active instructors of wilderness navigation. Bob Burns has participated in three revisions of Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills. They both live in Seattle, Washington.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books; 1st edition (April 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898866294
• ISBN-13: 978-0898866292
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #730,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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86 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wilderness navigation, December 14, 1999

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Timothy Watters "TW" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, and GPS (Paperback)

This book may be small enough to carry as a primer on land navigation for folks venturing into the wilds without knowledge or experience of map and compass skills.

However, as a text on land navigation skills it was disappointing. Better choices would be the Land Navigation Handbook: The Sierra Club Guide to Map and Compass by W. Kals (excellent) or M. Ferguson's GPS Land Navigation: A Complete Guidebook for Backcountry Users of the NAVSTAR Satellite System (also excellent).

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introductory volume, May 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, and GPS (Paperback)

I have been teaching orienteering for seven years, and this book is everything I could ask for in an introductory text. There are more advanced books, it is true, but this book is reasonably priced, highly readable, and complete enough for the beginning through intermediate adventurer.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Concise nice book, October 17, 2003

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MT "Marcov" (Mexico City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, and GPS (Paperback)

I am glad of to have bought this book, and here is the reason.

-Written by experts
-procedures explained clearly
-No time wasting, lessons cut the chase

CONCRETE and CONCISE

In a sure and concise way this book will explain you how to use map and compass so simple, in an easy way and without time wasting

OFFERS USEFUL EXTRA INFORMATION

Book have explanations about how to use altimeters and some considerations about altimeter performance under different weather conditions and this a good reason to include this book in your shopping list.

I have bought other 2 books about map and compass using, and this book includes information others doesn't have

BEST STARTING POINT

If you are looking for a concise introductory and well explained-compact book then this is the book for you, no doubt!