Harold Gatty

Finding Your Way without Map or Compass

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Useful, instructive manual shows would-be explorers, hikers, bikers, scouts, sailors, and survivalists how to find their way outdoors by observing animals, weather patterns, shifting sands, and other elements of nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780486406138
• ISBN-10: 048640613X
• Artikelnr.: 21913804

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD BY LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES H. DOOLITTLE PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 NATURE IS YOUR GUIDE 2 HOW EARLY MAN FOUND HIS WAY 3 IS THERE A
SIXTH SENSE? 4 WALKING IN CIRCLES 5 WALKING IN A STRAIGHT LINE 6 USE OF THE
EARS 7 USING YOUR SENSE OF SMELL 8 REFLECTIONS IN THE SKY (WITH SOME NOTES
ON STANDING CLOUDS) 9 DIRECTIONS FROM THE WIND 10 SOME SPECIAL EFFECTS OF
SUN AND WIND 11 DIRECTIONS FROM TREES AND OTHER PLANTS 12 ANTHILL SIGNPOSTS
13 FINDING YOUR WAY IN THE DESERT 14 FINDING YOUR WAY IN THE POLAR REGIONS
15 DIRECTIONS FROM HILLS AND RIVERS 16 ESTIMATION OF DISTANCE 17 FINDING
YOUR WAY IN TOWNS 18 ORIENTING AS A SPORT 19 DIRECTIONS FROM WAVES AND
SWELLS 20 THE COLOR OF THE SEA 21 THE HABITS OF SEA BIRDS 22 WHAT THE MOON
CAN TELL YOU 23 DIRECTIONS FROM THE SUN 24 DIRECTIONS FROM THE STARS 25
TELLING THE TIME BY THE STARS SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY SIMPLE TABLES OF
DIRECTIONS OF THE SUN INDEX