Map Man
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Map Man

📅 Sep 2004 📺 2 Season(s)
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Synopsis

Modern explorer Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain in a series of geographical challenges through some of today's wildest landscapes.

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Nicholas Crane
Nicholas Crane
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Season 1

8 episodes · 2004
  1. 1. William Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747-53) (Sep 16, 2004)
  2. 2. John Ogilby's Britannia (1675) (Sep 23, 2004)
  3. 3. Harry Beck's London Underground Map (1933) (Sep 30, 2004)
  4. 4. The Gough Map (1360s) (Oct 7, 2004)
  5. 5. Greenville Collins' Coasting Pilot (1693) (Oct 14, 2004)
  6. 6. William Smith's Geological Map of England & Wales (1815) (Oct 21, 2004)
  7. 7. Christopher Saxton's Atlas of England & Wales (1577) (Oct 28, 2004)
  8. 8. Martin Hotine's Ordnance Survey (1935-1950) (Nov 4, 2004)

Season 2

8 episodes · 2005
  1. 1. Bartholomew's Cycling Map of England and Wales (1896-1903) (Sep 5, 2005)
  2. 2. Timothy Pont's Maps of Scotland (1583) (Sep 12, 2005)
  3. 3. MacKenzie's Chart of the Orkney Islands (1748) (Sep 19, 2005)
  4. 4. John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611-12) (Sep 26, 2005)
  5. 5. John Cary's Inland Navigation (1796) (Oct 3, 2005)
  6. 6. William Mudge's Ordnance Survey, 1st Edition (1809) (Oct 10, 2005)
  7. 7. Mrs P's A-Z (1936) (Oct 17, 2005)
  8. 8. Thomas Raven's Clandeboye Estate Maps (1625) (Oct 24, 2005)
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