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road book
noun
- a book of maps, sometimes including a gazetteer
Example Sentences
In normal years, he would have been poring over the road book since the route being unveiled last October, trying to work out his best chances of stage wins.
Over two weeks, the competitors speed through breathtaking landscapes and end each night at the bivouac, the heart of the race and a landscape of camping tents with clothes hanging from dismantled vehicles, co-pilots checking the road book while eating dinner, staffers playing pétanque, and pilots queuing for a hopefully not-so-cold shower.
In rally raids, drivers leave the starting line at staggered times, navigating by way of a daily “road book” that contains instructions bordering on cryptic.
They are the roughly 100 women who will compete in the annual Rebelle Rally starting next week, armed with analog navigation tools: a map, a compass and a road book, but no cellphones or GPS devices.
One observation: using the map on the screen’s considerable space felt like the digital version of a road book map splayed across the dash.
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