Prepper's Survival Navigation: Find Your Way with Map and Compass as well as Stars, Mountains, Rivers and other Wilderness Signs

by Walter Glen Martin

Overview

Learn how to survive in the wilderness with this easy-to-understand primer on time-tested navigation techniques that work when your GPS fails.

When disaster strikes and your GPS is useless, ancient navigation techniques will ensure your survival. With this book, you can easily travel through even the farthest, remotest places. Utilizing tips from US Army manuals and lifelong wilderness experts, you’ll learn lifesaving navigation techniques, including how to:

• Orient yourself using a topographical map
• Find north using a compass, shadows and stars
• Calculate distance using landmarks and pace count
• Navigate unfamiliar terrain using dead reckoning
• Travel in low visibility with a navigator and point person
• Use landscape features to pinpoint location

This definitive guide to terrain navigation also teaches you essential survival skills like fire craft, water procurement and shelter making.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612436722
Publisher:	Ulysses Press
Publication date:	05/02/2017
Series:	Preppers
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Walter Glen Martin is the owner and producer of Prepper Broadcasting, a 24/7 prepper/survival internet radio station. Raised in Oregon, he spent most of his youth hunting, fishing, and camping in the Strawberry Mountains and, later, the Three Sisters Wilderness area. Working with a degree in architectural and mechanical drafting, Walt still longed for adventure, and weekends, holidays, and vacations would always find him somewhere in the wilderness. When he's not at his desk, Walt is either tending his animals or somewhere in the mountains of Northern Idaho.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Introduction 3

Chapter 1 Finding North Without a Compass 10

Chapter 2 The Topographical Map 23

Chapter 3 The Compass 34

Chapter 4 Movement and Routes 41

Chapter 5 Dead Reckoning 50

Chapter 6 Terrain Association 58

Chapter 7 Terrain Comparison and Navigation 62

Chapter 8 Exposure and Treatment While Navigating 71

Chapter 9 When You're Lost 84

Chapter 10 Finding Shelter 96

Chapter 11 Obtaining Water 114

Chapter 12 Fire Craft 125

Chapter 13 Survival Medicine While Navigating 137

Epilogue: Start Your Own Adventure 158

References 159

Index 160

Acknowledgments 169

About the Author 170