Route Finding: Navigating with Map and Compass

by Gregory Crouch

Book Overview

Explains step-by-step the map reading, land navigation, and route finding techniques crucial to success and safety in the outdoors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560448202
• ISBN13: 9781560448204
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Falcon Press Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Route Finding

This 96 page book is an excellent first look at navigating with a compass and topographic maps. The writing is clear and well paced, and the layout allows for easy reading and review. The illustrations are useful and cleanly drawn. There is no clutter in this book. The author has done an excellent job. This book assumes you have a baseplate compass and it does not discuss methods of locating north without one. Two pages explain the meaning of magnetic north, true north, and grid north, but in the discussion of declination there is no illustration showing how these vary in degree across the North American continent. A final chapter introduces latitude, longitude, the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid and the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS). The chapter on dead-reckoning is excellent. The book is filled with helpful tips and good sense. It will not be your final look at the science and art of navigation but it is a very good place to begin.