Map Of A Nation: Biography The Ordnance Survey Rachel Hewitt Granta Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

\ A Gripping Story About The Personalities Who Initiated Mapping Of Britain And Their Extraordinary Skill Endurance\ Max Hastings Sunday Times Ordnance Survey Is Much Beloved British Institution But In Our Modern Map-Obsessed World How Do We Know Its Curious Origins Challenges? Here At Last Remarkable Creation First Complete Accurate Affordable Map Isles What It Reveals Colourful Engrossing Secret History Obsessive Ambitious Men Dreamt Delivered Survey\ S One Political Revolutions Rebellions Regional Unions That Altered Shape Identity United Kingdom Over Eighteenth Nineteenth Centuries Makes For An Engaging Page-Turning Account Great Untold Adventure Stories Following Those Intrepid Individuals Lugged Brass Theodolites Up Mountains To Make Country Visible Itself Time This Brilliant Book It\ Astonishing No Has Thought Writing Before Best\ N Wilson Reader\ Digest Endlessly Absorbing Her Lively Informative Narrative Hewitt Highlights Project\ Legion Draughtsmen Surveyors Dreamers Eccentrics\ Ian Thomson Observer Σελίδες: 432 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm