Nicholas Crane
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Nicholas Crane (born 6 May 1954) is an English geographer, explorer, writer, and broadcaster.
Since 2004, he has produced and starred in four popular television series for BBC Two: Coast, Great British Journeys, Map Man and Town.
Early life and education
Crane was born in Hastings, East Sussex, but he grew up in Norfolk. He attended Wymondham College from 1967 to 1972, then Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology (CCAT), a forerunner to Anglia Ruskin University, where he concentrated on Geography.
In his youth, he went camping and hiking with his father, and discovered Norfolk by bicycle, sparking his love of exploring.
Personal life
Crane and his wife live in Primrose Hill, northwest London, and they have three children.
Career
In 1986, he found the point of inaccessibility for the Eurasia landmass travelling with his cousin Richard; their journey was chronicled in the book Journey to the Centre of the Earth. He began travelling 10,000 kilometres from Cape Finisterre to Istanbul in 1992-93. In his book Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Through Europe, he reminisces about the trip and created a travel guide to Istanbul (1994).
In his book Two Degrees West, he chronicled his walk from North to South in which he followed the eponymous meridian as closely as possible. Gerard Mercator, the greatest Flemish cartographer, was born in 2003.
The Royal Scottish Geographical Society awarded the Mungo Park Medal for his treks in Tibet, China, Afghanistan, and Africa, along with Richard Crane.
He began writing a series called Great British Journeys in 2007. In eight parts of the series, eight people were able to investigate Great Britain and made a contribution to society as a result of the discovery. Each episode lasted one hour, and a book was included in the series.
Richard Girling, Sue Clifford, Richard Mabey, and Bill Bryson debated the future of the English countryside in November 2007 as part of the CPRE's annual Volunteers Conference.
In August 2011, he presented a series of British towns that aired in August 2011, May–June 2013.
He has been a visiting professor at Anglia Ruskin University, which gave the former student the Honourable Doctor of Science award in 2012.
In 2015, he was elected President of the Royal Geographical Society, but Nigel Clifford is now occupying the position.
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present, a 12,000-year historical geography of Britain.