Ice Age to the Present, a 12,000-year historical geography of Britain. Personal life Crane lives in Primrose Hill in northwest London with his wife; they have three children. Books The CTC Route Guide to Cycling in Britain and Ireland (with Christa Gausden, 1980) Cycling Guide (Tantivy Press, annually 1980–86) Cycling in Europe (1984) Bicycles Up Kilimanjaro (with Richard Crane, 1985) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (with Richard Crane, 1987) Richard's Mountain Bike Book (with Charles Kelly, edited by Richard Ballantine, 1988) Nick Crane's Action Sports (1989) Atlas Biker: Cycling in Morocco. O.U.P. (1990) Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe (1996) Two Degrees West: An English Journey (2000) Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet (2003) Great British Journeys (2007) Coast A Journey around our Shores (2010) The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present (2016) Television Now Get Out of That – as a contestant representing Oxford, 1982 High Trails to Istanbul (1994) Map Man (8x30m, 2004 and 8x30m, 2005) Coast (as main presenter, 13x60m, 2005 and as regular contributor 2006 to present) Great British Journeys (8x60m, 2007) Beeching's Tracks – featured presenter of Episode 1 East. Broadcast 13 November 2008 on BBC Four Nicholas Crane's Britannia: The Great Elizabethan Journey (3x60m, 2009) In Search of England’s Green and Pleasant Land: East (30m, 2009) Broadcast 5 June 2009 on BBC Four Munro: Mountain Man (60m, 2009) Broadcast 20 September on BBC Four TOWN with Nicholas Crane (4x60m, 2011 and 4x60m, 2013) References External links Interview with Wanderlust magazine BBC's Coast Interview with Nicholas Crane on Keeper of the Snails 1954 births Living people Alumni of Anglia Ruskin University English travel writers Walkers of the United Kingdom People from Wymondham People educated at Wymondham College Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society