Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey
map - the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles.
The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and Map of a
Nation is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the
map and the men who dreamt and delivered it. The Ordnance Survey's
history is one of political revolutions, rebellions and regional unions
that altered the shape and identity of the United Kingdom over the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It's also a deliciously readable
account of one of the great untold British adventure stories, featuring
intrepid individuals lugging brass theodolites up mountains to make the
country visible to itself for the first time.