The Map That Changed the World
A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption
The extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology. 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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- ISBN: 978-0-14-194164-6
- EAN: 9780141941646
- Produktnummer: 17834574
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'975 KB
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Simon Winchester
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