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A phone with no signal and a dead battery is a reason to know where you are, not a reason to panic.

This book teaches navigation as one connected skill rather than three separate gadgets. It covers reading contour lines and terrain, taking and following a bearing, adjusting for magnetic declination, using a GPS unit and phone apps properly, and cross-checking all of them against the ground in front of you.

Inside you will find worked exercises you can practise in a local park, triangulation and resection explained without jargon, pacing and timing methods for low visibility, what to do the moment you realise you are lost, battery and offline-map strategy, and a short chapter on teaching these skills to children and hiking partners.

It is written for hikers, hunters, paddlers, and anyone who has quietly relied on a blue dot and wondered what happens when it disappears. No military background or orienteering club membership is required, and every technique works with equipment costing less than a single night in a hotel. Diagrams accompany each method.

Buy a basic compass, print one paper map of somewhere you already know, and work through chapter three this weekend. Navigation is a physical skill, and an afternoon of practice does more for it than any amount of reading at home in an armchair.

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