Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

Author:

Hewitt, Rachel

Publisher:

Granta Books

Price: £9.99

Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map - the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and Map of a Nation is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the map and the men who dreamt and delivered it. The Ordnance Survey's history is one of political revolutions, rebellions and regional unions that altered the shape and identity of the United Kingdom over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It's also a deliciously readable account of one of the great untold British adventure stories, featuring intrepid individuals lugging brass theodolites up mountains to make the country visible to itself for the first time.

Extent	432 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.)	ISBN	9781847082541
Size	N/A	Price	£9.99
Format	N/A	Published	07 Jul 2011
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