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Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass |  | Author: Harold Gatty
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 048640613X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.58
EAN: 9780486406138
Publication Date: March 19, 1999
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Product Description
Immensely useful, highly instructive manual for would-be explorers, hikers, bikers, scouts, sailors, survivalists—anyone who enjoys exploring the outdoors. Today’s adventurers will learn how to find their way in the wilderness, in towns, in the desert, in snow-covered areas—even on the ocean—by observing birds, animals, weather patterns, vegetation, shifting sands, patterns of snow fields, and the positions of the sun, moon and stars. Clearly, precisely and graphically explained by one of the world’s great navigators.
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 Wow! Lots of incredibly interesting navigation strategies! November 14, 2009
A. KEITH (Albuquerque, NM)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Along with a similar book "Low-Tech Navigation" I have found real gems of navigation lore. This one, in particular, was a real page-turner for me as I love to read about ways to navigate in the absence of the usual high tech (or higher tech) devices (like GPS, sextants, reference tables, etc.). Like the other one, I stumbled upon this one while hunting for a celestial navigation primer. When I read the description I was intrigued and decided to get it just to see what it was like.
I was absolutely not disappointed. In fact, when I got it I immediately began reading it and found that I couldn't put it down. It was fascinating and the author is a good writer. Makes the material interesting as well as instructive.
My only regret is that I can't remember enough of it so I'm afraid I'd be bemoaning my poor memory should I ever get lost and need any of these techniques!
The service was great!
 Great Book, but not a Quick Fix September 11, 2009
Doris J. Hill (Ann Arbor, MI United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is filled with information that is very valuable, however I do not believe you could read it once and use the information upon memory. Some of the information may work that way, but I believe field experience with this book in hand is the best way to learn the skills necessary to use the information for way-finding.
EXCELLENT BOOK, though! I do recommend it for anyone who might be heading into backcountry. The skills in this book could save you if you have them firmly packed away in your experience banks. There is information in this book which you'll likely not see in many other (if any) books.
 Want to learn history? February 28, 2009
Denny Garcia
9 out of 22 found this review helpful
I've read many, many books about survival, orienteering, and finding your way w/out a map or compass. I would not recommend this book to anyone. Sure, every book will teach you something, no matter how poorly written it is. But you do not expect to read a book that is 95% history, and 5% orienteering. This book discusses all the ancient methods used by the messopotanians, and creesians and all the other eesians of the past. their methods worked for them, but dont work for us. AFTER you have read many other books about finding your way, you can consider reading this one to pick up a thing or too, or to brush up on your history. the book is written 60 years ago.
wonderful January 22, 2009
James A. Dees (Cascadia)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I work as a wilderness instructor for Outward Bound, aboard the Schooner Adventuress, and for the Boulder Outdoor Survival School. Learning to do things the way our ancestors did (without modern technology) is a passion of mine. This book is a real find. It is full of information that actually works, and is written in a colorful and engaging manner. Wish I could have met the author; I am sure he would have been a great guy to hang out and chat with.
What a gem! January 13, 2009
M. L. Kazmierski
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is an absolute gem. I gave a copy of it to each of two friends for Christmas and both exclaimed how thrilled they were with it. One friend is a stargazer by nature and also loves to walk in the woods; the other prefers being in a boat far from shore. They couldn't believe such a wonderful and informative book existed. Thus, it's good that
this formerly out-of-print book has been reprinted for a new generation's enjoyment.
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