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The SAS Tracking & Navigation Handbook
by: Neil Wilson

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9781585744602
ISBN: 1585744603
Label: The Lyons Press
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: June 01, 2002
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Sales Rank: 310698
Studio: The Lyons Press

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Product Description:
For anyone who enjoys walking, mountaineering, canoeing, skiing, sailing, or mountain biking, it is important to have a sound grasp of key techniques for planning and maintaining a route under any possible condition, day or night, rain or snow. This compact, easy-to-use handbook, developed out of six decades of experience by the British Army's Special Air Service Brigade, provides clear advice on navigation methods, both for a fully equipped journey and in emergency situations. Beginning with such navigation fundamentals as understanding map grid references and how to use a compass and GPS (global positioning system), this handbook goes on to provide detailed information on such subjects as finding your way without a map or compass, reading the sun and stars, navigating in extreme environments, marking trails, signaling for help, and tracking both animals and people as well as basic tips on how to elude being tracked yourself. Every procedure is demonstrated in step-by-step diagrams that clearly outline what to do and what not to do in order to bring you and your companions safely to your destination. (7 1/2 x 9 1/2, 192 pages, diagrams, charts)

Neil Wilson is a freelance travel and outdoor pursuits journalist. An active mountaineer, mountain biker, sailor, paraglider, and snowboarder, he has written and photographed more than 30 books and traveled through Europe, North Africa, Mexico, the Far East, and Australia in the course of his work.

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- There's just not much here
In fact, there's only a single chapter on tracking, so let's just call this a navigation handbook. Okay, and the navigation info is very dryly presented and repeated. So I'm not saying this is a worthless book, but it's not all that great. (And for a final point, it's also bizarrely organized.)

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- very nice for start or mid level.
It is a more then basic navigation & wilderness book, with some discussion on fielding, surviving, first aid, tracking & escape. Military background of writer does pop up here and there (if u knows where to look...), but mostly it is a starting + or mid level, though also experience users can get a new thing or two. It is a clear and easy book in most main subjects. Pictures r very good and help a lot. covers most needed materials: map, scale, topography - yet all those should be widen: compasses and the use of them, map- and- compass navigation techniques including the most useful stuff as back bearing, resection etc'- very nicely covered. There is also cover for wilderness and stars navigation, and some nice advices for rout planning & finding. The GPS chapter is nice, but need to be updated. The survival chapter is too short and need to be updated & wider. Search & rescue: nice, yet first ... Read More

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- Buy anything but this book
Neil Wilson's book is unbelievably boring, redundant, and lacking of useful information beyond a few paragraphs. I have read other books that condense the useful navigation information in this book into a single chapter. Just pick up any Hiking & Backpacking guide and you'll see what I mean. And with only one chapter in this book dedicated to tracking, I hardly see how this book got it's title. Please don't buy this book!

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- Maybe a lifesaver, definitely a fun read.
This book gives numerous methods of how to locate your position in the field. Maybe not as technical as some would like but a good first book on the subject. My own view is that the methods given are simple enough that I would likely recall them if I was a nearly panicking person lost in the wild. If you don't know much about tracking and navigation it could be a fun page-turner initiation on the subject. As a scriptwriter looking for a good orientation I found it to be quite helpful.

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