Using a compass: Books, Videos, Classes?

nvprospector

Adventurer
The best book I have seen is the Military manual "Map Reading and Land Navigation (FM 21-26)". You can get this manual free from here.
 
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Beowulf

Expedition Leader
I will give that one a read. I also found Be an Expert with Map and Copmass that I was able download. It is dated but has a lot of info.
 

soonenough

Explorer
I bought a book called Outdoor Navigation with GPS by Stephen Hinch, which I thought was really good. Although the title implies that it's dedicated solely to navigating with an electronic GPS device, it has a many pages dedicated to 1) general navigation principles, and 2) how to apply these principles to navigating with a compass. Of course the majority of the book is dedicated to GPS, but there's plenty of information on map-and-compass navigation. It's available for less than $12 on Amazon (link)
 

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