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Nine Lives of John Ogilby

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ISBN: 9780715652268

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Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was to teach them. By the 1670s, he was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured drawings that placed roads on maps for the first time. During the intervening years, Ogilby had travelled through fire and plague, war and shipwreck; had been an impresario in Dublin, a poet in London, a soldier and sea captain, as well as a secret agent, p...Show more

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9780715652268

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Prelude

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2018

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Nine Lives of John Ogilby

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Paperback

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