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Modern explorer Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain.

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.

Map Man: Series 1

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Map Man: Series 1: Episode 5: Greenville Collins

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Episode 5: Greenville Collins

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Greenville Collins

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Nicholas Crane uses Greenville Collins's coasting pilot to navigate the Cornish coastline.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. He uses Greenville Collins's coasting pilot of 1693 to navigate the Cornish coastline.

Before the late 1700s no sailor could fix his exact position on open sea, so ships sailed close to land, which gave them landmarks to recognise, but also increased their risk of shipwreck. Greenville Collins's charts of the British coastline, published in 1693, saved hundreds of ships and lives.

Nicholas Crane takes a journey on a square-rigger of the period to try and re-discover what Collins did. He uses Collins's revolutionary coasting pilot to navigate safely round the treacherous Cornish coastline, sailing into a harbour and finding his way across dangerous open sea to Eddystone Rock.

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