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Map That Changed the World

Name: Map That Changed the World
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 04023416
Price: 13.87 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9780140280395

Simon Winchester

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04023416

Publishers Penguin Books, July 2002

Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology lo... Full description

Libristo code: 04023416

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Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback for 2002. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life was beset by troubles: he was imprisoned for debt, turned out of his home, his work was plagiarised, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him. It was not until 1829, when a Yorkshire aristocrat recognised his genius that he was returned to London in triumph. "The Map That Changed the World" is his story.