Code: 04023416

Map That Changed the World

Name: Map That Changed the World
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 04023416
Price: 52.38 PLN
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by Simon Winchester

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Penguin Books, 2002
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Book 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.