Map of a Nation

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Hewitt is the author of A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind (2017) and Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey (2010), which won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, awarded to authors engaged on their first major commissioned works of non-fiction, and was shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year. She has a doctorate in English Literature and has worked at the Universities of Oxford, Glamorgan, and London (Queen Mary). She writes for various publications, including the Guardian , New Statesman and TLS . Klappentext 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. This is 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. Zusammenfassung The fascinating story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map! told for the first time by a brilliant young historian.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Hewitt, Hewitt Rachel
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9781847082541
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-254-1
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Grossbritannien : Geschichte, Kartografie, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Social History, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History: specific events and topics, Cartography, map-making and projections