by Sarah Hartley · Simon & Schuster · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780743408769
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«Mrs P's Journey» is the biography of Phyllis Pearsall written by Sarah Hartley, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback (352 pages, in English).
The biography follows Phyllis Pearsall, daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant and an Italo-Irish mother. After a failed marriage, she earned her living as a portrait artist. Frustrated by inaccurate maps of London, she walked all 23,000 streets of the city in a year and founded The Geographer's Trust, which publishes the A-Z of London.
The original subtitle is 'The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Created the A-Z Map'. The 'New ed' edition was published in March 2002.
For readers interested in biographies of entrepreneurial women, the history of London, and cartography.
