The Nine Lives Of John Ogilby: Britain's Master Map Maker And His Secret

The Nine Lives Of John Ogilby: Britain's Master Map Maker And His Secret by Alan Ereira


ISBN
9780715651100
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Dimensions
150 x 210mm

John Ogilby's life is an astonishing adventure which is so fantastic as to be unbelievable. And yet very little is known about the man himself and his legacy has faded into obscurity. Alan Ereira's fascinating biography is about to change all that. Ogilby created himself out of nothing three times: by the lottery ti cket that allowed an 11-year-old urchin to buy an apprenticeship and dance at court; by the translation that turned a 48-year-old shipwrecked prisoner into a national poet; and by the swift mastery of surveying that turned a 65-year-old homeless victim of the Great Fire into the man who was paid to map London.

Perhaps best known for creating the most celebrated road atlas of England and Wales, Britannia, what has remained unknown until now is that this apparently harmless book turned out to be a well-researched handbook for where to land a French army of conquest in accordance with the secret treaty between Charles II and Louis XIV. Alan Ereira reveals the hidden details of this incredible man for the first time.

The Nine Lives of John Ogilby, which includes a selection of Brittania maps, will shock, entertain and inform.
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