Map Of A Nation
by:
Rachel Hewitt (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781847080981 (1847080987)
Publish date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Granta Books (UK)
Pages no: 436
Edition language: English
Puts the Ordinance Survey right on the map :). Something we walkers and scramblers have always loved, maps carried next to our hearts across the hills and through the rain, sleet and (rarely) burning sun. Winter nights on the kitchen table plotting routes. And 20 years ago wished for abroad in count...
If you are into maps this is well worth reading
This is an interesting history of how the first Ordnance Survey map of England & Wales came to be produced and published in 1870. The story starts over 100 years earlier, with the problems the military had in pursuing the clansmen after Culloden - there was no map to refer to - all the geographical ...