This is the best selling boating-book ever. 1,000,000 copies sold over 200 years. Everything a marine navigator could possibly need to know. 2011 Edition: Updated by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. USA Government Publication. Although it appears intimidating, it's actually quite readable. It happens also to be the very pinnacle of all marine navigation guides; all others refer to it and every professional and serious navigator/pilot does own a copy. It's enormous in both physical volume and weight. 885 pages. 36 ...
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This is the best selling boating-book ever. 1,000,000 copies sold over 200 years. Everything a marine navigator could possibly need to know. 2011 Edition: Updated by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. USA Government Publication. Although it appears intimidating, it's actually quite readable. It happens also to be the very pinnacle of all marine navigation guides; all others refer to it and every professional and serious navigator/pilot does own a copy. It's enormous in both physical volume and weight. 885 pages. 36 Chapters and 36 associated mathamatical documents: PART 1 - FUNDAMENTALS CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO MARINE NAVIGATION. CHAPTER 2. GEODESY AND DATUMS IN NAVIGATION. CHAPTER 3. NAUTICAL CHARTS. CHAPTER 4. NAUTICAL PUBLICATIONS PART 2 - PILOTING CHAPTER 5. SHORT RANGE AIDS TO NAVIGATION. CHAPTER 6. COMPASSES. CHAPTER 7. DEAD RECKONING. CHAPTER 8. PILOTING. CHAPTER 9. TIDES AND TIDAL CURRENTS. PART 3 - ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION CHAPTER 10. RADIO WAVES. CHAPTER 11. SATELLITE NAVIGATION. CHAPTER 12. LORAN NAVIGATION. CHAPTER 13. RADAR NAVIGATION. CHAPTER 14. ELECTRONIC CHARTS. PART 4 - CELESTIAL NAVIGATION CHAPTER 15. NAVIGATIONAL ASTRONOMY. CHAPTER 16. INSTRUMENTS FOR CELESTIAL NAVIGATION. CHAPTER 17. AZIMUTHS AND AMPLITUDES. CHAPTER 18. TIME. CHAPTER 19. THE ALMANACS. CHAPTER 20. SIGHT REDUCTION. PART 5 - NAVIGATIONAL MATHEMATICS CHAPTER 21. NAVIGATIONAL MATHEMATICS. CHAPTER 22. CALCULATIONS AND CONVERSIONS. CHAPTER 23. NAVIGATIONAL ERRORS. CHAPTER 24. THE SAILINGS. PART 6 - NAVIGATIONAL SAFETY CHAPTER 25. NAVIGATION PROCESSES. CHAPTER 26. EMERGENCY NAVIGATION CHAPTER 27. NAVIGATION REGULATIONS. CHAPTER 28. MARITIME SAFETY SYSTEMS. CHAPTER 29. HYDROGRAPHY. PART 7 - OCEANOGRAPHY CHAPTER 30. THE OCEANS. CHAPTER 31. OCEAN CURRENTS. CHAPTER 32. WAVES, BREAKERS AND SURF. CHAPTER 33. ICE NAVIGATION. PART 8 - MARINE METEOROLOGY CHAPTER 34. WEATHER ELEMENTS. CHAPTER 35. TROPICAL CYCLONES. CHAPTER 36. WEATHER OBSERVATIONS. CHAPTER 37. WEATHER ROUTING. NAVIGATION TABLES
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Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic/Typographic Center
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1984
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English
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Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 1414 pp. Green boards, golt gilt lettering and design, slightly worn. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. This book will require extra charges for Priority or International shipping.
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Good with no dust jacket. Foxing to the exterior edge of pages only. Yellowing to pages. Spill stain to exterior edge of pages only. Water damage. Text is intact. Personal library sticker on the first blank page (ffep). Good overall condition. General wear. No major blemishes. No writing.; 0 pages.