Land Navigation Handbook

by W.S. Kals

Book Overview

This bestselling manual--now thoroughly revised and updated--is designed for anyone who wants to chart a course in the wilderness: hiker, backpacker, snowshoer, skier, fisherman, or hunter. Step by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871563312
• ISBN13: 9780871563316
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Gross! Blood on the pages!

I wish I could review the actual book i have the first edition and was looking forward to an update after so many years. Frankly, I cannot even open the book. Blood on several pages and based on the prints, human. Someone who owned it must have a cut a finger. Very obvious. Cannot miss it, but the seller did. I can deal with mold. I can deal with damaged bindings and pages. I cannot deal with the risk of touching pages with blood. Like I said, Gross!

An invaluable instructional reference

This updated second edition of LAND NAVIGATION HANDBOOK: THE SIERRA CLUB GUIDE TO MAP, COMPASS & GPS could also have appeared in either our Sports or Military columns, but deserves mention here to be sure the widest possible audience receives notice of the completely updated edition including new text by Clyde Soles. Here is a pocket-sized 'bible' of outdoors survival, providing basic keys on everything from using maps and compass to using an altimeter, navigating by kayak on lakes, understanding GPS navigation and how to choose and use a GPS unit, and even how to navigate by moon and sun alone. Photos, drawings, and a fold-out topographic map provide plenty of visual illustration and examples of the details and make for an invaluable instructional reference both in the field and for at-home study. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Vastly improved! The new standard for navigation books.

The new edition brings this classic book up to date with digital mapping and GPS technology. It retains much of the content and flavor of the original text yet adds a great deal of material that is helpful today. This handbook teaches the basics of map, compass, and GPS with clear langauage while offering advanced outdoors folks detailed information and tips (there's even information for adventure racers, geocachers, and sea kayakers). The new info, illustrations, and photos make this the best navigation book on the market for anyone who plays in the outdoors.

Get this book!!!! it'll be your best choice

This is a great book, it is careful explained, written in plain english, it explains everything about map and compass navigation ...and it goes further explaining about stars navigation, altimeter navigation, scales, cross country navigation and much more!, all explanations are carefully developed to made easy the learning process.If you are looking for a book to get usefull knowledge about land navigation or compass and map skills this your best choice.This is a book for all people, beginers and intermediate users will be pleased and satisfied, the book contains a lot of useful information.Author is an expert!!!, no doubt this is the best book about map & compass navigation and the best choice!

Very Comprehensive and easy to understand

The book discusses in detail every technique that you need to know to become a very good land navigator. It explains very simply and clearly the different types of maps and compasses. Teaching the novice or expert basic and advance navigational techniques which are both simple and practical. So far this is the best book that I have read with regards to land navigation.

A very complete book about land navigation! Excelent!

This book teaches everything from basics to advanced navigation procedures, it even teaches you how to understand those crazy topographic maps you've got to use when navigating! It's very complete, it's very easy to understand and it comes from those guys who defend the wilderness. Looking for THE book about map & compass? You found it.