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Nicholas Crane


Born
in Hastings, Sussex, England, The United Kingdom
May 06, 1954

Twitter
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Genre
Exploration, Geography


Distilled from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas... accessed 07-Aug-2012:

Nicholas Crane (born 6 May 1954) is an English geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster was born in Hastings, East Sussex, but grew up in Norfolk. He attended Wymondham College from 1967 until 1972, then Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology (CCAT), a forerunner to Anglia Ruskin University, where he studied Geography.

In his youth he went camping and hiking with his father and explored Norfolk by bicycle which gave him his enthusiasm for exploration. In 1986 he located the pole of inaccessibility for the Eurasia landmass travelling with his cousin Richard; their journey being the subject of the book “Journey to the Centre of the Earth.”

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“Maps codify the miracle of existence.”
― Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
tags: cartography, existence, map, maps, mercator
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