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The talk about makeshift radio direction finders reminded me that I've been 
meaning to post about David Burch's book "Emergency Navigation".

I'll make this review short and sweet: BUY IT. It's great fun and it's filled 
with lots of clever little tricks for many aspects of traditional navigation, 
whether you're ever in an emergency at sea or not. They're not all winners, 
but they're all thought-provoking. The book is well-written and inexpensive. 
The illustrations are excellent. 

There have been some discussions on NavList before about specific topics from 
this book, and I'm glad I finally got around to buying a copy. This was one 
of those rare cases where the advantage of a "brick-and-mortar" bookstore (as 
opposed to an online virtual store) made the sale for me. Flipping through it 
convinced me I wanted it. I bought my copy from the store at Mystic Seaport 
back in August, and incidentally, it was on a shelf with quite a few other 
navigation books including one by the prolific Hewitt Schlereth (who is also 
a NavList member :-) ). 

-FER


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