Ended · 2004–2005
Map Man
Nature / Travel / History
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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Seasons & episodes
Season 1 · 8 episodes
- S01 E01 · William Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747-53)
- S01 E02 · John Ogilby's Britannia (1675)
- S01 E03 · Harry Beck's London Underground Map (1933)
- S01 E04 · The Gough Map (1360s)
- S01 E05 · Greenville Collins' Coasting Pilot (1693)
- S01 E06 · William Smith's Geological Map of England & Wales (1815)
- S01 E07 · Christopher Saxton's Atlas of England & Wales (1577)
- S01 E08 · Martin Hotine's Ordnance Survey (1935-1950)
Season 2 · 8 episodes
- S02 E01 · Bartholomew's Cycling Map of England and Wales (1896-1903)
- S02 E02 · Timothy Pont's Maps of Scotland (1583)
- S02 E03 · MacKenzie's Chart of the Orkney Islands (1748)
- S02 E04 · John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611-12)
- S02 E05 · John Cary's Inland Navigation (1796)
- S02 E06 · William Mudge's Ordnance Survey, 1st Edition (1809)
- S02 E07 · Mrs P's A-Z (1936)
- S02 E08 · Thomas Raven's Clandeboye Estate Maps (1625)
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