Description: As in all the "Essential" series titles, the text is woven page by page with sidebars, photos, & drawings to create a highly visual reading experience. This combination is uniquely effective in propelling the reader to a fundamental mastery of map & compass use. But The Essential Wilderness Navigator does more than teach the disciplines of reading compasses & interpreting topographical maps, important as these are. It includes exercises for developing our sixth sense of spatial awareness-what psychologist call cognitive maps. It offers tips for reading nature's highway signs, from vegetation bands, to wind ripples in snow or sand, to the sun & stars. It covers the particular challenges of mountain, snow, & desert navigation. It summarizes the research on how & why men & women navigate differently. And above all, it teaches the language & thought processes of the experienced navigator. To understand bearing, lines of position, baselines, bracketing, aiming off, & catch points is to know how to use these techni

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