Publisher's Synopsis
Learn to master your map and compass with expert soldier knowledge!
Enjoy this unabridged, high-quality Doublebit 1993 Historic Edition reprint of Map Reading and Land Navigation, US Department of The Army Field Manual FM 21-26 (now presently published as FM 3.25-26).
Contents include essential knowledge about maps and their care, topographic and other map symbols, the military grid system, map scale and distance, direction, compass work and orienteering, interpreting aerial photographs, mastering elevation and terrain, and effective overland travel.
Become an expert land navigator for your wilderness camping and backpacking trips, or pick up valuable orienteering skills to track and read the terrain on your way through the backcountry.
A part of the Military Outdoors Skills Series: Volume 1
This Doublebit Historic Edition reprint of Map Reading and Land Navigation is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this Historic Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge.
About the Doublebit Military Outdoors Skills Series
Military manuals contain essential knowledge about outdoors life, thriving while in the field, and self-sufficiency. Unfortunately, many great military books, field manuals, and technical guides over the years have become less available and harder to find. These have either been rescinded by the armed forces or are otherwise out of print due to their age. This does not mean that these texts are worthless or "out of date" - in fact, the opposite is true! It is true that the US Military frequently updates its manuals as its protocols have changed based on the times and combat situations that our armed services face. However, the knowledge about the outdoors over the entire history of military publication is timeless!
By publishing the Military Outdoors Skills Series, it is our goal at Doublebit Press to do what we can to preserve and share historic military works, such as army field manuals (the FM series), technical manuals (the TM series), and other military books that hold timeless knowledge about outdoors life, navigation, and survival. Through remastered reprint editions of military handbooks and field manuals, we can preserve the time-tested skills and institutional knowledge that was learned through hard lessons and training by the U.S. Military and our expert soldiers.
