(Ebook) Map and Compass Handbook by Glenn Randall ISBN 9781493047994, 149304799X

(Ebook) Map and Compass Handbook by Glenn Randall ISBN 9781493047994, 149304799X

Learning the craft of backcountry navigation using all of the availabletools gives you the freedom to roam the wilderness at will in any season.Navigation skills, particularly the ability to read a map, also buy you aticket to hours of mind travel: poring over possible routes and wonderingwhat secrets some serpentine desert canyon holds, what fish might inhabitsome lake lost in the wilderness far from any trail, or what elegant climbsmight be possible on some sharp-edged ridge or daunting granite face. I stillcarry a book to read during idle hours, stormbound in camp, but I rarelycrack it open. Instead I spend my free time poring over my maps, studyingthe way the contours lie and the streams run, memorizing the names ofprominent peaks and lakes, and planning my next adventure. With maps andyour imagination, the world is your playground.My father gave me my first compass when I was twelve, and I’ve beenpracticing getting lost with it ever since. Actually, to paraphrase DanielBoone, I’ve never really been lost; I’ve just been mighty confused. Afterforty-nine years of getting confused in far-flung wildernesses from Alaskato Argentina, I’ve learned route-finding the hard way. If you read this bookcarefully and (even more important) spend a few hours practicing the skillsit teaches, you’ll master wilderness navigation the easy way and saveyourself a thousand anxious moments in the process.