Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

Title: Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey
Creator(s): Hewitt, Rachel
Date: 2011
Number of Pages: 432
Language: eng
Publisher: Granta Books
Place Published: Newburyport
ISBN: 978-1-84708-254-1
Short Title: Map Of A Nation
Zotero BiDiAr: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/VKEHRU7X/item-list
Abstract: 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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