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Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey - Couverture souple

Hewitt, Rachel

 
9781847082541: Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1847082548 ISBN 13 : 9781847082541
Editeur : Granta Books, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

RACHEL HEWITT completed her doctoral thesis on the subject of the early Ordnance Survey at the University of London in 2007, and is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She won the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction for this project. She lives in Cambridge.

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Éditeur
Granta Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847082548
ISBN 13 
9781847082541
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
432
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Personne responsable
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