Route Finding: Navigating with Map and Compass

Rating:
Summary: Very Basic
Review: This book covers all of the necessary skills in order to find your way in the wilderness. However, it does so in such a superficial way that you come away from the book wondering whether you will be able to perform any of the skills in the real world.

This is a rather disconcerting feeling to take away from a book like this, since people are going to get lost in the wilderness and then not know what to do. Such a subject should be covered fully, or not at all.

If you are new to reading maps and land navigation, then you need more than this book will give you. I suggest Sierra's guide to land navigation for a beginning. If you know what you are doing with map and compass, then this book won't give you any new information. It is small enough to stick in your pocket, but I can think of lots of things I'd rather carry for a week on my back (food...water...a good novel...).

Rating:
Summary: Very Basic
Review: This book covers all of the necessary skills in order to find your way in the wilderness. However, it does so in such a superficial way that you come away from the book wondering whether you will be able to perform any of the skills in the real world.

This is a rather disconcerting feeling to take away from a book like this, since people are going to get lost in the wilderness and then not know what to do. Such a subject should be covered fully, or not at all.

If you are new to reading maps and land navigation, then you need more than this book will give you. I suggest Sierra's guide to land navigation for a beginning. If you know what you are doing with map and compass, then this book won't give you any new information. It is small enough to stick in your pocket, but I can think of lots of things I'd rather carry for a week on my back (food...water...a good novel...).