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Wilderness Navigation

Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & GPS

AvBob Burns,Mike Burns

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

277 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

-Full-color maps to highlight real-life orientation methods and challenges-Detailed descriptions and comparison charts of recommended tools, including personal locator beacons and satellite communicators-Navigation exercises and practice problems-Guidance for adapting skills and techniques for a wide range of outdoor activities

Only One Living to Tell

The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian

AvMike Burns,Gregory McNamee

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

240 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Mike Burns--born Hoomothya--was around eight years old in 1872 when the US military murdered his family and as many as seventy-six other Yavapai men, women, and children in the Skeleton Cave Massacre in Arizona. One of only a few young survivors, he was adopted by an army captain and ended up serving as a scout in the US army and adventuring in the West. Before his death in 1934, Burns wrote about the massacre, his time fighting in the Indian Wars during the 1880s, and life among the Kwevkepaya and Tolkepaya Yavapai. His precarious position between the white and Native worlds gives his account a distinctive narrative voice.Because Burns was unable to find a publisher during his lifetime, these firsthand accounts of history from a Native perspective remained unseen through much of the twentieth century, archived at the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott. Now Gregory McNamee has brought Burns's text to life, making this extraordinary tale an accessible and compelling read. Generations after his death, Mike Burns finally gets a chance to tell his story. This autobiography offers a missing piece of Arizona history--as one of the only Native American accounts of the Skeleton Cave Massacre--and contributes to a growing body of history from a Native perspective. It will be an indispensable tool for scholars and general readers interested in the West--specifically Arizona history, the Apache wars, and Yavapai and Apache history and lifeways.

Night Train Lane

Life of Hall of Famer Richard Night Train Lane

AvMike Burns

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

185 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Wilderness Navigation

Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, & GPS, 2nd Ed.

AvMike Burns,Bob Burns

E-bok

Engelska, 2012

162 kr

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* GPS chapter completely updated to reflect newer models and features of GPS receivers now available* Expanded to include a section on routefinding on glaciers, along with additional information on changing declination* Extensive illustrated examples of orientation and wilderness navigationProceed with confidence when heading off-road or off-trail with the second edition of Wilderness Navigation. Whether you are climbing a glacier, orienteering in the backcountry, or on an easy day hike, Mike and Bob Burns cover all the latest technology and time-tested methods to help you learn to navigate-from how to read a map to compasses and geomagnetism.Bob Burns is a long-time member of The Mountaineers. He has taught classes in the use of map and compass since the late 1970s. Mike Burns is an avid climber. He has instructed climbing and navigation classes, and written articles for Climbing magazine.Part of the The Mountaineers Outdoor Basics series! Created for beginning-to-intermediate enthusiasts, this series includes everything anyone would need to know about staying safe and having fun in the backcountry.

Wilderness GPS

A Step-by-Step Guide

AvMike Burns,Bob Burns

E-bok

Engelska, 2013

137 kr

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CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Wilderness GPS* Simple, focused, and accessible, Wilderness GPS is for anyone using GPS in an outdoor setting* Trust us: first-timers need help to use their new backcountry GPS devices* From the authors of the bestselling Wilderness Navigation (65,000 copies sold)

Thousands have learned compass and map skills with the help of father-and-son team Bob and Mike Burns and their straightforward, simply explained book, Wilderness Navigation. Now they’ve written a book for everyone who has bought a backcountry GPS device and found it inexplicably complicated to use (which includes most of us). Wilderness GPS is an easy-to-use guide to get you navigating the outdoors with your handheld GPS device. Wondering how to choose from the variety of gear and computer programs, or how to use a GPS with your map and compass effectively? Wilderness GPS details this and more including:

* How to select your GPS gear* Getting started and practice routines* Different coordinate systems: latitude and longitude vs. Universal transverse Mercator (UTM)* Routefinding in wilderness settings, including common scenarios* GPS vs. map and compass routefinding* Using GPS on water* Using your GPS with a home computer or mobile “smart” device

Bob Burns and Mike Burns are the authors of Wilderness Navigation, a nationally bestselling primer that serves as the official textbook for navigation courses taught by The Mountaineers and other outdoor education centers. Together, they have decades of professional experience in teaching map and compass, GPS, and navigation in the outdoors and have hiked, scrambled, climbed, and snowshoed all over the West Coast and beyond. They both live in Seattle.

Wilderness Navigation

Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & GPS

AvMike Burns,Bob Burns

E-bok

Engelska, 2025

237 kr

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Emphasizes core and foundational navigation skills using a compass and mapExpanded sections on how to use GPS and other technologiesEach chapter includes a full set of practice problemsFor thirty years, Wilderness Navigation has been the official textbook used in outdoor education courses across the country, with more than 150,000 copies sold. This fourth edition continues to provide an excellent manual on the essential tools and proven techniques of top-notch navigators, while also incorporating the latest innovations in navigation technology and trends.New material details guidance on using GPS and other satellite-based navigational products, updates the types and availability of topographical maps, and notes changes in magnetic declination. The authors, seasoned navigators with decades of experience teaching and mountaineering, continue to refine material for clarity, accuracy, and to address suggestions from readers.

Mud and Bodies

The War Diaries & Letters of Captain N.A.C. Weir, 1914–1920

AvMike Burns,Saul David

E-bok

Engelska, 2021

127 kr

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Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary among some boxes he had been left, and learnt that his grandfather had served as an officer in the 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlander throughout the First World War, seeing action at Loos, the Somme and Vimy Ridge, as well as in staff and training posts. It ends with his work at the War Office during the Russian Civil War of 1919–20. In the diary, and the accompanying letters which have been collected from various members of the Weir family, we hear the authentic voice of a First World War soldier and get an insight into his experiences on the Western Front and elsewhere. Edited and with introductory text by Saul David, this book is one of the most fascinating accounts ever published of the First World War as experienced by the men who fought it.