American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy Book

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.

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