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Pencil, paper and stars : the handbook of traditional and emergency navigation
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Pencil, paper and stars : the handbook of traditional and emergency navigation

Alastair Buchan

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Includes index.

Contents

An excellent art
Another kind of sailing
The first navigators
All in the mind
Passage planning
A home made magnetic compass
Direction from the sun
Direction from the stars
Direction from the moon
Telling the time
Dead reckoning and estimated positions
Coastal navigation
Home made sextants
Sextant corrections
Meridian sights
Latitude from polaris
Longitude
Plane sailing
Chartmaking
Signs of landfall
Accuracy.

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Pencil, paper and stars : the handbook of traditional and emergency navigation by Alastair Buchan. ISBN 9780470516522. Published by Wiley Nautical in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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