The Essential Wilderness Navigator: How to Find Your Way in the Great Outdoors, Second Edition

<h3>Introduction</h3><h3>What's New in this Edition</h3><h3>1. A Sense of Direction</h3><h4>Locating Your Sixth Sense</h4><h4>How Not to Get Lost</h4><h4>Why We Get Lost</h4><h4>How to "Get Found"</h4><h3>2. Maps</h3><h4>The World in Your Hands</h4><h4>Types of Maps</h4><h4>Three Dimensions into Two</h4><h4>The Language of Maps</h4><h4>Reading the Terrain</h4><h4>Latitude and Longitude</h4><h4>Scale</h4><h4>Distance</h4><h4>Direction</h4><h4>Putting Yourself on the Map</h4><h4>Map Care and Gear</h4><h3>3. Compasses</h3><h4>What Compasses Can Do</h4><h4>Earth's Magnetic Field</h4><h4>How Compasses Work</h4><h4>Make Your Own</h4><h4>Declination</h4><h4>Compass Types</h4><h4>Orienting Your Compass to Magnetic North</h4><h4>Orienting Your Compass to Geographic North</h4><h4>Bearings</h4><h4>Deviation</h4><h4>Following a Compass Course</h4><h4>Testing Your Skills</h4><h3>4. Navigation</h3><h4>Map and Compass Combined</h4><h4>Orienting the Map with a Compass</h4><h4>Finding a Course from the Map</h4><h4>Locating a Mapped Object in the Field</h4><h4>Locating an Observed Object on the Map</h4><h4>A Bearing from a Mapped Object</h4><h4>Other Lines of Position</h4><h4>Warning Bearings</h4><h4>Crossing Lines of Position</h4><h4>Returning to the Same Spot</h4><h4>A Running Fix</h4><h4>Finding Distance Off</h4><h4>Measuring Distance Covered</h4><h4>Dead Reckoning</h4><h3>5. Navigation in Use</h3><h4>Route Planning</h4><h4>The Practice of Navigation</h4><h4>On the Trail</h4><h4>Hitting What You Aim For</h4><h4>Landmarks as Guides</h4><h4>Sources of Error</h4><h4>When You Are Lost</h4><h3>6. Looking to Nature for Clues</h3><h4>Finding North and South at Noon</h4><h4>North and South from a Shadow</h4><h4>Quick but Inaccurate</h4><h4>Movements of Sunrise and Sunset</h4><h4>Bearings from Sunrise and Sunset</h4><h4>Polaris</h4><h4>The Southern Cross</h4><h4>Other Stars</h4><h3>7. Extreme Environments</h3><h4>Mountains</h4><h4>Snow</h4><h4>Deserts</h4><h3>8. Electronic Navigation</h3><h4>GPS 101</h4><h4>Getting Started</h4><h4>E-Maps: Topos and Charts on CD-ROM</h4><h3>9. Appendix</h3><h4>Bearings of Sunrise and Sunset</h4><h4>Declination Corrections</h4><h4>Metric Conversion Tables</h4><h4>Orienteering</h4><h4>Sources of Maps, Books, Compasses, Videos, GPS Manufacturers, and Electronic Mapmakers</h4><h4>Travel Plan</h4><h3>Index</h3><h3>Acknowledgments</h3>