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Re: Book suggestion, please.
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2004 Apr 30, 17:32 -0500
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2004 Apr 30, 17:32 -0500
> > I have always recommended George Mixter's _Primer of Navigation_ as a good > starting point for learning and understanding coastal and celestial > navigation. > It's back in print, with added chapters on current electronics, but the > foundation is still piloting, dead reckoning, and celestial (with solutions > by > HO 211/Ageton in the older editions, adding HO 229 & 249 examples in later > eds). Peter, Amazon does not show Mixter available as a new book. Any idea who the publisher is, or where to get a copy? Ken Gebhart