Navigation For Walkers [ISBN: 1 871890 54 3]

If you are at all apprehensive about taking the first steps exploring the countryside around you, then 'Navigation for Walkers' will certainly start you on the right path to acquiring the skills to navigate and complete any walk in Britain.

Only with a good understanding of maps and by using them correctly, can anyone truly experience the quiet exhilaration and freedom of walking centuries old paths, bridleways and green lanes which make up the thousands of miles of public rights of way that criss-cross Britains' uniquely beautiful and often remote open countryside.

Based on Ordnance Survey's Explorer, Outdoor Leisure and Landranger series, this book takes the reader step by step through the essential techniques of map reading, navigation skills, reading the compass and route planning to complete your sense of direction.