Bøger af Rachel Hewitt

Why have women¿s encounters with the natural world been largely airbrushed from history? Do women engage with landscape ¿ be it writing, exploring, observing, studying, running, climbing or walking ¿ differently to men? Rachel Hewitt traces the traditions dominated by men¿s experiences, and the ways in which women¿s immersion in nature diverges from the template we have inherited. In Her Nature will recover experiences and legacies often overshadowed, unnamed and potentially lost within a canon of nature writing and history. It will also celebrate an alternative tradition of women's endeavours that defy an unspoken cultural norm.

This ';absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey'the first complete map of the British Islescharts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome' (The Guardian, UK). Map of a Nationtells 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 this isamazinglythe 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.