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200430 Min.Beendet

Map Man

Sender:BBC Two

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S02E08 - "Thomas Raven's Clandeboye Estate Maps (1625)"

Ausgestrahlt am Oct 24, 2005, 11:00 AM

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Beschreibung

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.

Details

Status
Beendet
Sprache
English
Laufzeit
30 min
Erstausstrahlung
September 16, 2004
Beendet
October 24, 2005
Sendeplan
Monday um 0:00

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Episoden (2 Staffeln · 16 Episoden)

Bartholomew's Cycling Map of England and Wales (1896-1903)

Nicholas Crane travels Britiain using historical maps. He uses Bartholomew's Cycling Map to set a route through the Lake District.

Sep 5, 2005

30 Min.

Timothy Pont's Maps of Scotland (1583)

Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He uses Timothy Pont's 16th-century maps of Scotland to locate unidentified mountains.

Sep 12, 2005

30 Min.

MacKenzie's Chart of the Orkney Islands (1748)

Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. In the 1740s, schoolmaster Murdoch Mackenzie used revolutionary ways to map the sea.

Sep 19, 2005

30 Min.

John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611-12)

Nicholas Crane travels across Britain using historical maps. Can he navigate Berwick with Speed's roadless town plan?

Sep 26, 2005

30 Min.

John Cary's Inland Navigation (1796)

Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. John Cary was commissioned to map the hottest new investment of the industrial age, the canals.

Oct 3, 2005

30 Min.

William Mudge's Ordnance Survey, 1st Edition (1809)

Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He reproduces the triangulation methods of Mudge's original Ordnance Survey map.

Oct 10, 2005

30 Min.

Mrs P's A-Z (1936)

Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He follows the trail of Mrs Phyllis Pearsall, who created the London A-Z map almost singlehandedly in 1936.

Oct 17, 2005

30 Min.

Thomas Raven's Clandeboye Estate Maps (1625)

Nicholas Crane tries to locate a lost village using Thomas Raven's 1625 maps of the Clandeboye Estate in the north of Ireland.

Oct 24, 2005

30 Min.

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