Essential Wilderness Navigation: A Real-World Guide to Finding Your Way Safely in the Woods With or Without A Map, Compass or GPS

Well written and sequenced, the book is a logical, thorough nav manual. It is illustrated with great graphics and references. Highly recommend this for anyone who wants to expand their nav skills.

Si quieres aprender como orientarte con una lata, con los árboles, con el sol, con las estrellas, etc. este libro te puede interesar. Si realmente quieres aprender a orientarte y navegar con mapa y brújula, este libro NO es para ti. Te recomiendo que mejor compres “Wilderness Navigation” de Bob Burns y Mike Burns (serie Mountaineers).

I have other books on the same subject, but this is the one I would recommend. It is manageable, practical and well edited.

Highly recommend this if you wish to learn about all things navigation.... the authors have considered the reader and the end of chapter test is brilliant

I had the opportunity back in the spring of this year to meet both of the authors of this book. I found their teaching methods to be very concise and easy to understand and I wondered if this would translate to their written materials. So, after several months, I decided to add this book to my collection of land navigation materials.First, to cover the book itself, it is very well printed with good quality paper that seems durable though I have had this book for less than a week so time will tell. The full-color photographs are a nice touch and necessary for adequately explaining some of their concepts. In the entire book, I found one small typo which is far better than the standard in these texts. Everything about the construction of the book seems a step above making this an attractive book if nothing else. It even has a full-sized fold-out map in the back which is a rare addition in modern printing.As for content, generally, Land Navigation books take either the bare bones route or go deep into the subject with information that most people will never even want to use. This book provides a good blend with the first third of the book devoted to the nuts and bolts of navigation and the remainder providing tips, tricks, and elaborations on the subject. This even includes some information specific to scouts, military, and first responders that is a first as far as I know.There are bare-bones books such as Wilderness Navigation by Bob Burns which are purely devoted to just the map and compass skills. On the converse side, there are books like Be Expert with Map and Compass (Kjellstrom) which devote serious sections of the book to information that is very specific to the sport of orienteering. This book is a blend between the two. It provides 90% of the practical information from both the aforementioned books and uses the additional space to give real-world skills, practices, and tips that are both interesting and handy.The only book more interesting in the land navigation world is likely Gooley’s Natural Navigator but that book should be a supplement to the skills taught in more traditional land navigation texts instead of supplanting them.I have dabbled in land navigation for over 20 years and taught it to some greater or lesser extent for about 10 years. I am no expert but I work professionally with maps on a daily basis. I have a collection of a dozen or more books on land navigation. That said, this is in my top three for a beginner or intermediate skill level. I think you need to get a breadth of reading materials to get a solid understanding and you could do a whole lot worse than starting with this text. There were even a couple of tricks that were new to me and I will be trying in the near future.