Main entry:

Ereira, Alan, author.

Title & Author:

The nine lives of John Ogilby : Britain's master map maker and his secrets / Alan Ereira.

Publication:

London : Duckworth Overlook, 2016.
©2016

Description:

xiv, 354 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-341) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 The Journey to John Ogilby -- Life 1 Beginning -- The mysterious man -- Hidden origins -- The tailor's material -- The debtor's prison -- The dance of the law -- School -- The lottery -- Believe it or not -- Life 2 The Dancer -- Apprenticeship -- The young master -- Theatre and masque -- The evidence deciphered -- Galileo and the dance -- Life 3 The Soldier -- The hidden life -- The Winter Queen -- Hopton the hero -- The marriage -- Pike and musket -- Expeditions -- The brawler -- Life 4 The Impresario -- The power of spectacle -- Getting to Ireland -- Teaching civilisation -- The new monarchy -- Exporting theatre -- Colonising thespians -- Making an Irish theatre -- Life 5 The Life Redacted -- Rebellion -- Rathfarnham -- Hopton -- Transporting troops -- Shipwreck -- Life 6 The Poet -- Translation -- Lessons of Virgil -- Seymour -- The new Europe -- The scattered network -- Making a new life -- Aesop -- Life 7 The Gentleman --
Ogilby meets Ogilvie -- The mysterious arms -- The House of Airlie -- Disposing of a baby -- The undercover aristocrat -- The astrologer's evidence -- The Virgil patrons -- Ogilby's re-adoption -- Learning Greek -- Discovering subscription publishing -- The invention of crowd-funding -- Master of the Royal Imprimerie -- Life 8 The Pageant Master -- The procession -- Arches -- Master of the Revels -- Return to London -- Plague -- The story-teller -- The new epic poet -- Life 9 The Atlas Maker -- Apocalypse -- The world of the coffee house -- The Atlas project -- pt. 2 The Journey to Britannia -- The Use of Maps -- The mysterious book -- The way-wiser -- The mind of a mapmaker -- The need for a guide -- The use of the atlas -- The Secret Treaty of Dover -- A Tale of Two Kings -- The plot -- The government survey -- Ogilby's new job -- What's in the Book -- The meaning of Britannia -- Reading the secret -- The key to the puzzle -- The Royal Society --
The measurement of roads -- The proposals -- Strange roads -- Roads for landings -- Off the map -- The King's Britannia -- Knowledge, power and privilege -- The Plot is Dead. Long Live the Plot -- Mapping London -- Vyner -- The rush to publish -- The edge of the precipice -- Eliminating Liverpool -- The approach to Liverpool -- Suppressing the town -- The End of the Road -- Charles triumphant -- The place of the book -- The place of the man -- The new reality.

Summary:

John Ogilby's life is an astonishing picaresque adventure which is so fantastic as to be unbelievable. And yet very little is known about the man himself and his legacy has faded into obscurity. Ereira's fascinating biography is about to change all that. Ogilby created himself out of nothing three times; by the lottery ticket that allowed an 11-year-old urchin to buy an apprenticeship and dance at court, by the translation that turned a 48-year-old shipwrecked prisoner into a national poet, and by the swift mastery of surveying that turned a 65-year-old homeless victim of the Great Fire into the man who was paid to map London. Perhaps best known for creating the most celebrated road atlas of England and Wales, Britannia, this apparently harmless book turned out to be a well-researched handbook for where to land a French army of conquest in accordance with the secret treaty between Charles II and Louis XIV. Ereira unpicks the hidden details of this incredible man for the first time. Living through war in Europe, England and Ireland, surviving plague, fire, explosions and imprisonment, everything he did was driven by his vision of cosmic order. This book will shock, entertain and inform.

ISBN:

9780715651100 hardback
0715651102 hardback

Subject:

Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676. Britannia.
Ogilby, John 1600-1676
Britannia (Ogilby, John)
Cartographers Great Britain 17th century Biography.
Cartographes Grande-Bretagne 17e siècle Biographies.
Cartographers
Kartografie
Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714 Biography.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1603-1714 (Stuarts) Biographies.
Great Britain
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Biographies.
collective biographies.
History

Added entries:

Britain's master map maker and his secrets

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298144
Call No.: BIB 244418
Status: Available