Compass: With few words Easy to follow

A compass is extremely valuable equipment used by scouts and hikers, pilots and campers, in airplanes, in mobile phones, captains of ships at sea, on spaceships and guided missiles, by car drivers and mountain climbers (even fortune tellers!). It’s everywhere. It is such a simple and powerful tool that everyone should know how to use it. Prepare yourself and you always find the way!

This book is with as little text as possible and lots of pictures to make it quick to read, easy to follow, easy to remember and easy to recall.

See the Table of Contents to know what to expect from this book.

Forewords
The history
The compass
Types of Compasses
Digital and Modern Compasses
Basic compass
Advanced Compass
Compass Rose
Scales
Declination
Terminology
The Three North
Magnetic Declination Basics
Declination Changes Over Time
Magnetic Meridians
Inclination or Dip
Local Anomalies

Compass Use
Compass Use
Accurate reading
Orienting compass
Taking and following bearing
Direction of object and direction of travel
Map

Map and Compass
Orienting Map and Land
Measure a Bearing on a Map with compass
Compass bearing on map
Determine Your Position on Map
Determine Position of an object on a Map
Measure Distance to objects
Calculations

Directions without Compass
The sun
The stars
Analog Watch
Shadow-Tip
Nature

DIY
How to make a Compass
Emergency compass
Simple homemade compass
How to Make a Protractor
How to Make a Clinometer

Popular compass manufacturers
Do you need one?

Appendix
Compass Tips and Terminology
Tips
Terms
The 32 Points of the Compass
Inclination slope
Declination Vectors
Declinations Online