Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
Nicholas Crane studied at London University and got a bachelor's degree with honors.
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1967
Golf Links Rd, Wymondham NR18 9SZ, United Kingdom
From 1967 till 1972 Nicholas Crane attended Wymondham College.
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1977
Cambridge Campus, East Rd, Cambridge CB1 1PT, United Kingdom
Nicholas Crane studied at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology (CCAT), a forerunner to Anglia Ruskin University, where he studied Geography.
Cambridge Campus, East Rd, Cambridge CB1 1PT, United Kingdom
Nicholas Crane studied at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology (CCAT), a forerunner to Anglia Ruskin University, where he studied Geography.
Nicholas Crane is a British geographer, explorer, writer, and broadcaster. He is also a producer of Now Get Out of That (1981), Great British Journeys (2007) and Coast (2005).
Background
Crane was born in Hastings, East Sussex, but grew up in Norfolk. In his youth, he went camping and hiking with his father and explored Norfolk by bicycle, which gave him his enthusiasm for exploration. Nicholas has a cousin Richard Crane.
Education
From 1967 till 1972 Nicholas Crane attended Wymondham College Nicholas Crane studied at London University and got a bachelor's degree with honors. Then he studied at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology (CCAT) (now it's Anglia Ruskin University), where he studied Geography.
Nicholas' first job was a touring development officer with the Cyclists' Touring Club. Since 1979 Nicolas has begun his writing career. Nicholas Crane has published various works on bicycling and hiking. In 1984 he produced Cycling in Europe, and in 1987 he collaborated with his brother, Richard Crane, in writing Journey to the Centre of the Earth. He followed that volume with The Great Bicycle Adventure, another 1987 publication, wherein he relates his experiences bicycling up Mount Kilimanjaro and other formidable peaks. The next year Crane teamed with Charles Kelly in issuing Richard’s Mountain Bike Book.
Nearly ten years passed before Crane produced Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk across Europe. In this volume, he recounts his hike from Cape Finisterre in western Spain to Istanbul. Crane spent more than five hundred days on his trek, and he traveled ten thousand kilometers. The hike took him through various mountain regions, including the Alps, the Carpathians, and the Balkans, and it led him through areas varying from teeming ski resorts to remote villages.
In 1999 Crane published Two Degrees West: A Walk Along England’s Meridian, an account of his trek across the middle of England. His journey took him through hill towns, industrial plains, villages, and rural regions. His 2000 book, "Two Degrees West", described his walk across Great Britain in which he followed the eponymous meridian as closely as possible. In 2002 Nick published Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet" the first English language biography of the world's greatest cartographer. Since 2004 he has written and presented four notable television series for British Broadcasting Corporation Two: Coast, Great British Journeys, Map Manitoba and Town. In 2007 Nicolas completed a series called "Great British Journeys". In eight parts the series consisted of eight people who explored Great Britain and made a contribution to society born of the exploration. Nicholas is a contributor to periodicals, including Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times (London, England), and Guardian.
In November 2007 he debated the future of the English countryside with Richard Girling, Sue Clifford, Richard Mabey, and Bill Bryson as part of CPRE"s annual Volunteers Conference. Nicolas presented a series about British towns broadcast in August 2011 and May-June 2013. He worked for Afghanaid and served on the board of the Society of Authors. Nicolas is currently working on the 12,000-year historical geography of Britain.
Nicholas was a vice-president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
Quotations:
"We all have a world view. It is one of the things that makes us human. Wherever we come from, whoever we are, we all have to engage with people, places and our environment. Geography is a way of thinking."
Membership
Nicholas Crane is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, the Society of Authors. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was elected President of the Royal Geographical Society in 2015.
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Personality
Physical Characteristics:
Nicholas Crane wears glasses.
Interests
reading, traveling
Sport & Clubs
hiking, cycling
Connections
Nicholas Crane married Annabel Huxley in 1991. They have two children: one daughter, one son.