He must navigate treacherous waters, set his sails to catch the rising wind, know when a storm is coming and how best to weather it.
George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
“Smugglers cannot navigate, the southern reaches any better than can Rabban’s men.
Herbert, Frank
Dune
I sure hope he didn't get picked up by the pigs on the way--he was so out of it, man, he could hardly navigate.
Dick, Philip K.
A Scanner Darkly
Cort taught them to navigate by the sun and stars; Vannay showed them compass and quadrant and sextant and taught them the mathematics necessary to use them.
Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla
“Maybe I could make the boat go faster?” “Even if you could,” Hazel said, “from what the captains tell me, it’s treacherous—icebergs, mazes of channels to navigate.
Rick Riordan
The Son of Neptune
When I am adrift and unable to navigate, that's when they come.
Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
A dedicated thrasher could probably navigate from L.A. to New York by coasting from one parking lot into the next.
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The top of the elf’s head barely reached the seat of Hepzibah’s chair, and her papery skin hung off her frame just like the crisp linen sheet she wore draped like a toga.“How do I look?” said Hepzibah, turning her head to admire the various angles of her face in the mirror.“Lovely, madam,” squeaked Hokey.Harry could only assume that it was down in Hokey’s contract that she must lie through her teeth when asked this question, because Hepzibah Smith looked a long way from lovely in his opinion.A tinkling doorbell rang and both mistress and elf jumped.“Quick, quick, he’s here, Hokey!” cried Hepzibah and the elf scurried out of the room, which was so crammed with objects that it was difficult to see how anybody could navigate their way across it without knocking over at least a dozen things: There were cabinets full of little lacquered boxes, cases full of gold-embossed books, shelves of orbs and celestial globes, and many flourishing potted plants in brass containers.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Spacing Guild feared the equation Arrakis=melange; without the spice they could not navigate.
Frank Herbert
Children of Dune