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The Map That Changed the World Soft cover - 2001
by Winchester, Simon
- Used
- Paperback
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Details
- Title The Map That Changed the World
- Author Winchester, Simon
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - NF. Ink to endpaper.
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins, New York
- Date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1130669
- ISBN 9780060931803 / 0060931809
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.3 x 0.88 in (20.42 x 13.46 x 2.24 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Smith, William, Geology, Stratigraphic - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 550.92
Summary
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.
First line
Above one of the many grand mar staircases within the east wing of Burlington House, the great Palladian mansion on the north side of London' Piccadilly, hangs a pair of huge sky blue velvet curtains, twisted and tasseled silk ropes beside them.
