Map and Compass: A comprehensive guide to navigation (2nd Revised edition)
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Pete Hawkins (Author)
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A comprehensive guidebook to navigation with a map and compass. The book covers both map reading and compass use for beginners and techniques for advanced map readers looking to improve their skills.
Chapters cover understanding a map, grid references, contours, taking bearings, walking with a compass, timing and pacing, what to do when you get lost and navigating abroad.
Plenty of illustrative map extracts, graphics and diagrams
Advanced techniques for night and poor visibility navigation
Advice on GPS and digital mapping technologies
About the Author
Pete Hawkins trained as a geography teacher and taught in schools for a year before escaping to the Peak National Park's Environmental Centre for an outdoor job. He took over map and compass training and has since written for a variety of outdoor magazines. He now runs a navigation school and leads walking holidays around the world from his base in the Peak District.
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- Contributor: Pete Hawkins
- Imprint: Cicerone Press
- ISBN13: 9781852845988
- Number of Pages: 176
- Packaged Dimensions: 138x216x11mm
- Packaged Weight: 300
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Cicerone Press
- Release Date: 2024-01-05
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Pete Hawkins trained as a geography teacher and taught in schools for a year before escaping to the Peak National Park's Environmental Centre for an outdoor job. He took over map and compass training and has since written for a variety of outdoor magazines. He now runs a navigation school and leads walking holidays around the world from his base in the Peak District.
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