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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 2

Nicholas Crane

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Map Man: Series 2: Episode 5: John Cary's Inland Navigation

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Episode 5: John Cary's Inland Navigation

Series 2

John Cary's Inland Navigation

BBC Two - Map Man, Series 2, John Cary's Inland Navigation

A look at the maps of John Cary which show the routes of all of Britain's canals.

Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. John Cary was commissioned to map the hottest new investment of the industrial age, the canals.

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

John Cary was commissioned to survey and map the hottest new investment of the industrial age, the canals. His maps show the routes of all of Britain's canals and are a document of a lost world, and when Nick goes looking for the Cary canal routes through the Black Country, he has a lot of detective work to do as many have been filled in or converted into railway lines.

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