| The SAS Tracking & Navigation Handbook | 
 enlarge | Author: Neil Wilson
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 384538
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1585744603
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9781585744602
ASIN: 1585744603
Publication Date: June 1, 2002
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Condition: overall good condition. Pages are tight and unmarked.
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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 November 13, 2008
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.)
 very nice for start or mid level. November 16, 2006
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 aid should be wider with self-treatment for breaks, cuts & cut organs. Also no words on poisoning plants and animals. Tracking and trailing: nice, but not full. Same with escape methods.
All by all - it is very nice. Not a fully military book, but a very good aid for start + or mid level field navigators or soldiers: for the experienced persons, most material known but I believe u will find a new thing or two.
 Buy anything but this book July 9, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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!
 Maybe a lifesaver, definitely a fun read. November 12, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
This Book Is Definitely OFF Track!!! June 15, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book was a big disappointment for me. I bought this title for the tracking information and only received maybe twenty pages out of a book of 192 pages! I know when I bough the book it would have a good portion dedicated to navigation, but why not call the book yNavigation and Trackingy or take tracking out of the title. Well as far as the content on navigation it is quite good, the tracking section just seems to be a regurgitation of Bob Carss book ySAS Guide to Trackingy which I recommend over this title for tracking.
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