Navigating With or Without a Compass: Using Bearings and Nature to Find Your Way - Hardcover

Tanner, Miles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762493968 ISBN 13: 9780762493968

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2019

Synopsis

From a wilderness expert, this essential guide will help you get your bearings and find your way out of the wilderness if you find yourself lost—no matter your equipment.

During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about pathfinding both on land and at sea.

Applying methods used by primitive peoples and early explorers, Gatty shows how to determine location, study wind directions and reflections in the sky, and find your way in any climate by using your senses.

By observing birds and other animals, weather patterns, vegetation, shifting sands, patterns of snow fields, and the positions of the sun, moon, and stars, would-be explorers can learn to estimate distances and find their way without having to rely on a map or a compass.

The wealth of valuable data and advice in this volume — much of it unavailable elsewhere — makes it indispensable for hikers, bikers, scouts, sailors, and outdoorsmen — all those who might find themselves stranded or lost in an unfamiliar area.

Through careful study of this book and its lessons, pathfinders can learn to interpret signs in the natural world to find their way in almost any kind of terrain.
 

About this title

About the Author

Miles Tanner is an avid outdoorsman who has written for numerous publications about survival and outdoor skills. He lives outside of Billings, Montana.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762493968
• ISBN 13: 9780762493968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128