The map that changed the world: the tale of William Smith and the birth of a science
by Winchester, Simon
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060193611
- ISBN 13
- 9780060193614
- Seller
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Holywell, Flintshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Acanthophyllum Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34503
- Title
- The map that changed the world: the tale of William Smith and the birth of a science
- Author
- Winchester, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hard covers, dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060193611
- ISBN 13
- 9780060193614
- Publisher
- Penguin Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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