Map Man - Season 2

Map Man - Season 2

Season 2

Network
Episodes8
Datessept. 5, 2005 - oct. 24, 2005
Previous Season

Episodes

Bartholomew's Cycling Map of England and Wales (1896-1903)
Season 2Episode 130 min

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.

sept. 5, 2005
Timothy Pont's Maps of Scotland (1583)
Season 2Episode 230 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.

sept. 12, 2005
MacKenzie's Chart of the Orkney Islands (1748)
Season 2Episode 330 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.

sept. 19, 2005
John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611-12)
Season 2Episode 430 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?

sept. 26, 2005
John Cary's Inland Navigation (1796)
Season 2Episode 530 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
William Mudge's Ordnance Survey, 1st Edition (1809)
Season 2Episode 630 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
Mrs P's A-Z (1936)
Season 2Episode 730 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
Thomas Raven's Clandeboye Estate Maps (1625)
Season 2Episode 830 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

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