Nicholas Crane
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Nicholas Crane is a British explorer, writer and broadcaster. Most recently, he has written and presented two television series for BBC Two.
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. In 1992-3 he embarked on an 18-month solo journey, walking 10000 kilometres from Finisterre to Istanbul. He recounted the trip in his book Clear Waters Rising which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1997.
His 2000 book, Two Degrees West, described his walk across Great Britain in which he followed the eponymous meridian as closely as possible. Most recently he published a biography of Gerard Mercator, the great Flemish cartographer.
Together with Richard Crane, he was awarded the 1992 Mungo Park medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his journeys in Tibet, China, Afghanistan and Africa.
He is a resident of Chalk Farm, London, and is married with three children.
[edit] Books
- Bicycles Up Kilimanjaro (with Richard Crane, 1985)
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth (with Richard Crane, 1987)
- Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe (1996)
- Two Degrees West: An English Journey (2000)
- Mercator: The Man Who Mapped The Planet (2003)
