Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey (Paperback)

from PDCRead

If you are into maps this is well worth reading

from pierthinker

The British Ordnance Survey is respected the world over, but often underestimated in value by us Brits. Its true value only becomes apparent when we travel abroad and find we cannot get maps of foreign parts with the same range, detail and authority as we can at home. We always seem somewhat bemu...

from DramMan

Interesting account of the origins of the Ordnance Survey, stretching back to the aftermath of Culloden in 1746 and full of Scottish input, particularly in the early years. We take maps for granted (and did so long before GPS etc), yet it took over a century to complete the 'first series' maps of...

from Ma_Washigeri

Puts the Ordinance Survey right on the map :). Something we walkers and scramblers have always loved, maps carried next to our hearts across the hills and through the rain, sleet and (rarely) burning sun. Winter nights on the kitchen table plotting routes. And 20 years ago wished for abroad in co...

from Ma_Washigeri

Puts the Ordinance Survey right on the map :). Something we walkers and scramblers have always loved, maps carried next to our hearts across the hills and through the rain, sleet and (rarely) burning sun. Winter nights on the kitchen table plotting routes. And 20 years ago wished for abroad in co...