The classic map and compass navigation guide, updated with new features and tips Be Expert with Map and Compass is a popular, easy-to-use orienteering handbook that has been helping people find their way for more than 70 years. This new edition contains a variety of updates on the essentials of map reading, with new photos and stories included throughout. In this refreshed, modern take on the classic outdoor navigation guide, readers will learn: * How to read a map, map symbols, traveling by map and compass alone or by map and compass together, finding bearings, sketching maps, and traveling…mehr
The classic map and compass navigation guide, updated with new features and tips Be Expert with Map and Compass is a popular, easy-to-use orienteering handbook that has been helping people find their way for more than 70 years. This new edition contains a variety of updates on the essentials of map reading, with new photos and stories included throughout. In this refreshed, modern take on the classic outdoor navigation guide, readers will learn: * How to read a map, map symbols, traveling by map and compass alone or by map and compass together, finding bearings, sketching maps, and traveling in the wilderness * Compass design basics, how to test your compass skills, understand declination, and special uses of your compass in fishing and hunting * Competitive orienteering basics, with information on how to organize an orienteering event and prepare the course beforehand The Fourth Edition of Be Expert with Map and Compass remains the book of choice for professional outdoorsmen, novice orienteers, and outdoor organizations as well as teachers, scout leaders, recreational hikers, hunters, and others around the world seeking to feel more comfortable in the wilderness.
Carina Kjellström Elgin developed her love of nature and of orienteering by literally following in the large footsteps of her father, Björn Kjellström, on almost daily excursions into the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation that neighbored her childhood home. She lives on a farm in Virginia with too many animals. The late Björn Kjellström, an enthusiastic outdoorsman, experienced wilderness traveler, and cross-country skier, was a Swedish champion in orienteering. He was a founder of the Swedish and the U.S. Orienteering Federations, as well as Vice President of the International Ski Federation. He helped invent the modern protractor-based compass (still the industry standard), and cofounded internationally renowned compass company, Silva.
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Preface to the Fourth Edition vii Part 1 The Art (and Science) of Navigation and Orienteering 1 The Map and Compass in Your Everyday Life 5 The Map and Compass in the Outdoors 7 Map and Compass for the Family 10 Map and Compass Bringing People Together 11 Using the Map and Compass in Education 12 The "Passion" of Orienteering 14 Part 2 Discovery: Fun with Maps Alone 17 What Is a Map? 18 What the Map Tells 28 Traveling by Map 63 Part 3 Exploration: Fun and Learning with the Compass 77 The Origin of the Compass 80 Compass Design Basics 86 Traveling by Compass Alone 89 Test Your Compass Skills 102 Fishing and Hunting: Special Use of Your Compass 119 A Hunter's Story 126 Part 4 Adventure: Fun and Learning with Map and Compass 131 The Excitement of the Uncertain 131 Traveling by Map and Compass: Orienteering 147 Hints on Wilderness Orienteering 168 Part 5 Challenge: Competitive Orienteering 173 The History of the Sport of Orienteering 176 Your First Orienteering Race 203 Hints on Competitive Orienteering 214 Overcoming Obstacles 217 Following Your Routes 220 The Postmortem 230 Part 6 Organizing an Orienteering Event 233 Preparing the Course 235 Running an Orienteering Event 253 Answers to Tests 265 Epilogue 269 Index 271
Preface to the Fourth Edition vii Part 1 The Art (and Science) of Navigation and Orienteering 1 The Map and Compass in Your Everyday Life 5 The Map and Compass in the Outdoors 7 Map and Compass for the Family 10 Map and Compass Bringing People Together 11 Using the Map and Compass in Education 12 The "Passion" of Orienteering 14 Part 2 Discovery: Fun with Maps Alone 17 What Is a Map? 18 What the Map Tells 28 Traveling by Map 63 Part 3 Exploration: Fun and Learning with the Compass 77 The Origin of the Compass 80 Compass Design Basics 86 Traveling by Compass Alone 89 Test Your Compass Skills 102 Fishing and Hunting: Special Use of Your Compass 119 A Hunter's Story 126 Part 4 Adventure: Fun and Learning with Map and Compass 131 The Excitement of the Uncertain 131 Traveling by Map and Compass: Orienteering 147 Hints on Wilderness Orienteering 168 Part 5 Challenge: Competitive Orienteering 173 The History of the Sport of Orienteering 176 Your First Orienteering Race 203 Hints on Competitive Orienteering 214 Overcoming Obstacles 217 Following Your Routes 220 The Postmortem 230 Part 6 Organizing an Orienteering Event 233 Preparing the Course 235 Running an Orienteering Event 253 Answers to Tests 265 Epilogue 269 Index 271
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