Navigation Books

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These books cover such topics as orienteering, using map and compass, and GPS. Everything to keep you from getting lost.

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         Item #: B2142
TITLE: A Comprehensive Guide to Land Navigation with GPS
Author(s): Hotchkiss
Pages: 200 pages, illustrations, color photos
Price: $ 19.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 15.96
      A very practical, hands-on guide on how to use a Global Positioning System receiver to determine your location in the wilderness & how to get to your desired destination. Include full color fold-out grid reference system map of the U.S. & general operating instructions for GPS receivers.
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         Item #: B1967
TITLE: Be Expert With Map & Compass
Author(s): Hjellstrom
Pages: 225 pages, illustrations
Price: $ 17.00 @ 20.0% off = $ 13.60
      Revised (1994) edition of the grandaddy of map & compass instructionals. The emphasis is on using them in orienteering situations. The author is a former Swedish champion. Over 500,000 copies have been sold since 1955.
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         Item #: B1968
TITLE: Be Your Own Map Expert
Author(s): Taylor
Pages: 48 pages, HARDCOVER, color illustrations
Price: $ 16.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 13.56
      This activity book helps kids learn how to read the land, make & read maps, and have fun doing it. Shows how to:
      * Make maps to scale
      * Interpret signs, symbols, & grids
      * Read compass
      * Figure out longitude & latitude
      Activities include:
      * Making a map-poster
      * Making a compass from magnet, needle, & cork
      * Setting up a treasure-hunt game
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         Item #: B2141
TITLE: California GPS Companion
Pages: 374 pages, maps, charts
Price: $ 13.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 11.16
      This book fills a gap between GPS units & maps & charts, listing 8100 locations in all, including beaches, State & National parks, ski areas, waterfalls, and much more.
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         Item #: B1969
TITLE: Compass & Map Navigator
Author(s): Hodgson
Pages: 156 pages, illustrations
Price: $ 14.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 11.96
      Basic steps to help you navigate through the wilds with or without a compass, with or without a map, and then all of the tools together, including a GPS. Learn to navigate rivers, streams, moose trails, & more.
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         Item #: B1964
TITLE: GPS Made Easy: Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors
Author(s): Lawrence Letham
Pages: 224 6" x 9" pages, 15 b/w photos, 10 maps, 35 illustrations
Price: $ 14.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 11.96
      The third edition is revised to reflect the greater accuracy of GPS receivers since the removal of Selective Authority. Clear language, precise illustrations, & thorough explanations make this the only GPS book outdoor enthusiasts will ever need. Essential for any critical navigation, such as finding your tent in a whiteout or trying to draw a trail accurately on a map, the use of GPS has exploded in popularity.
     
      "Lost when it comes to using GPS? Lawrence Letham has made the complex navigation system easy to understand & use."
      - Idaho Statesman
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         Item #: B2772
TITLE: GPS Waypoints of Colorado's Fourteeners
Author(s): Clinger
Pages: 64 pages
Price: $ 12.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 10.36
      Pocket-sized reference guide contains waypoints for navigating around all 54 of Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks.
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         Item #: B2144
TITLE: GPS Waypoints: Arizona
Pages: 304 pages
Price: $ 17.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 14.36
      Compilation of waypoints with coordinates covering entire state's summits, lakes, springs reservoirs, dams cities towns airfields, landing strips & much more.
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         Item #: B2145
TITLE: GPS Waypoints: Colorado
Pages: 258 pages
Price: $ 15.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 12.76
      Compilation of waypoints with coordinates covering entire state's summits, lakes, springs reservoirs, dams cities towns airfields, landing strips & much more.
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         Item #: B2146
TITLE: GPS Waypoints: Oregon
Pages: 288 pages
Price: $ 16.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 13.56
      Compilation of waypoints with coordinates covering entire state's summits, lakes, springs reservoirs, dams cities towns airfields, landing strips & much more.
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         Item #: B2147
TITLE: GPS Waypoints: Washington
Pages: 208 pages
Price: $ 14.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 11.96
      Compilation of waypoints with coordinates covering entire state's summits, lakes, springs reservoirs, dams cities towns airfields, landing strips & much more.
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         Item #: B2386
TITLE: Route Finding: Navigation with a Map & Compass
Author(s): Gregory Crouch
Pages: 128 4.25" x 7" pages
Price: $ 6.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 5.56
      This pack-sized reference is aimed at both beginners & experts. It explains, step-by-step, the map reading, land navigation, & route finding techniques crucial to success & safety in the outdoors.
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         Item #: B2830
TITLE: Sea Kayak Navigation Simplified
Author(s): Moyer
Price: $ 11.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 9.56
      Ever try to get over the hump of learning to use a chart & compass for kayak navigation? This little book makes it fun.
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         Item #: B2325
TITLE: Staying Found: The Complete Map & Compass Handbook
Author(s): Fleming
Pages: 160 5.5" x 8.5" pages
Price: $ 12.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 10.36
      Presents an easy to use, unified maps & compass system. Includes instruction on route planning & winter navigation.
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         Item #: B1559
TITLE: The Basic Essentials of Map & Compass
Author(s): Cliff Jacobson
Pages: 72 6" x 9" pages, illustrations
Price: $ 7.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 6.36
     
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         Item #: B2143
TITLE: The Essential Wilderness Navigator
Author(s): Seidman
Pages: 160 pages, photos, illustrations
Price: $ 14.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 11.96
      The author of the highly successful Essential Sea Kayaker takes on the subject of navigation for hikers, backpackers, backcountry skiers, and wilderness paddlers. Tells how to use map and compass, but even better, he also shows how to develop a 6th sense of spatial awareness ("cognitive maps"), & how to "read" nature as well as map & compass.
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         Item #: B2383
TITLE: Using GPS: Finding Your Way with the Global Positioning System
Author(s): Bruce Grubbs
Pages: 128 4.25" x 7" pages
Price: $ 6.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 5.56
      This pack-sized book is a guide to practical field use of the Global Positioning System for anyone whose play or work takes them to remote areas. Written in simple language, with each new term explained as it's used, this book is a wealth of useful backcountry navigation advice for beginners & experts alike.
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         Item #: B2171
TITLE: Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & GPS
Author(s): Bob Burns & Mike Burns
Price: $ 9.95 @ 20.0% off = $ 7.96
      Backed by more than 60 years of field research, this book includes the most reliable & easy-to-learn methods of navigation yet devised. Perfect for anyone who ventures off-trail: snowshoers, skiers, climbers, backcountry hikers, & fisherman. Expert authors Bob & Mike Burns wrote the navigation chapter in the sixth edition of the classic climbing textbook, "Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills".
      "Wilderness Navigation" covers:
      * How to read & use maps
      * The easiest compass technique
      * Accurate use of clinometers & altimeters
      * Easy, practical techniques for GPS receiver usage
      * All terrain, all-weather routefinding
      It also includes 30 practice problems & up-to-date declination maps
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