Backpacker Magazine''s Trailside Navigation - Map and Compass

Informationen zum Autor Molly Absolon is a former NOLS instructor, an environmental educator, and outdoor writer. She is the author of the Backpacker Magazine Core Skills books Campsite Cooking, Trailside Navigation, Trailside First Aid, and Outdoor Survival. Klappentext Backpacker magazine's Trailside Navigation brings you essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Learn how to choose and use a compass and altimeter, read a map, plot a course and find your way through the wilderness, and use maps and compass in concert with a GPS receiver. Perfect for pack or pocket, this book breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and portable information useful in the field. Full-color photos and illustrations complement concise, clear text, introducing you to basic and intermediate skills needed to safely and successfully get by in the outdoors. Zusammenfassung Perfect for pack or pocket! this book breaks down its subject into the essential topics! providing practical and portable information useful in the field.

Product details

• Authors: Molly Absolon, Absolon Molly
• Assisted by: Dave Anderson (Photographs)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2010
• EAN: 9780762756544
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-5654-4
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: Backpacker Magazine Series; Backpacker Magazine; Backpacker Magazine Series; Backpacker Magazine
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines; SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills, Walking, hiking, trekking, SPORTS & RECREATION / Hiking, TRANSPORTATION / Navigation, Active outdoor pursuits, Navigation & Seamanship