How to Go Anywhere (and Not Get Lost): A Guide to Navigation for Young Adventurers
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    [synopsis] => Born to explore 



 Get outside with this interactive book that shows how explorers have found their way around the planet for thousands of years. Read about the ancient Polynesians who tracked the stars and waves to sail precise paths through the ocean. Or the Age of European Exploration navigators who use compasses and dead reckoning to reach the New World. And learn the science behind radar and modern-day GPS satellites. Then discover how to do it yourself! With illustrated activities as well as handy tips throughout, you'll learn the fascinating history and seriously useful skills to become a true navigator.

 Up your adventure game and learn to:

 -Find north and south by reading the trees

 -Make a simple compass

 -Use the stars to tell time

 -Build a basic sextant

 -Get your bearings using the sun

 -Go treasure hunting with GPS





   A fun, fully illustrated history of navigation, from the earliest Polynesian star navigators to modern-day GPS - complete with hands-on activities to demonstrate the various tools and techniques. Hans Aschim is a Brooklyn-based writer and communications consultant. He's traveled the world over writing for Outside, Vice Sports, Esquire, Men's Journal, and other publications, and mentors kids for the sports and outdoors nonprofit Stoked. Table of Contents

  

 Foreword

  

 Introduction

  

 Chapter 1: Look Up and Around: Early Navigators and Nature

 Activities:

    Test your cognitive mapping skills

    Get to know directions

    Read the Trees

    Make Your Own Stick Chart

  

 Chapter 2: Nature's Map in the Sky: The Sun and Stars

 Activities:

    Get Your Bearings Using the Sun

    Make Your Own Star Clock

    Make Your Own Basic Sextant

  

 Chapter 3:  Beyond Direction: Distance and Dead Reckoning

 Activities:

    Make Your Own Mini–Chip Log

    Clock Your Speed

    DIY Pace Count Beads

  

 Chapter 4: Finding Longitude: High Tech Hits the High Seas

 Activities:

    Track the Sun!

    Find Solar Noon (and your Longitude) Down to the Minute

  

 Chapter 5: Points North: The Almighty Map and Compass

 Activities:

    Make Your Own Simple Compass

    Measuring Magnetic Declination on Planet Orange

    Take a Bearing in the Wild

    Visualizing Magnetic Declination

    Triangulation: Take Time to Really Find Yourself

    Get the Bearing for Your Destination

  

 Chapter 6: The Modern Navigator: Radio Waves From Sea to Space

 Activities:

    Go Satellite-gazing

    Check (and Convert) Your Coordinates, Then Search for Cache

  

 Further Reading

   "An ideal resource to integrate geography, history, and STEM." -Booklist



 "A nice addition to school collections where geography and human movement are studied." -School Library Journal
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