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.
Product details
- Paperback | 352 pages
- 129 x 198 x 21mm | 245g
- 04 Jul 2002
- Penguin Books Ltd
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- illustrations, facsimiles, maps, glossary, bibliography, index
- 0140280391
- 9780140280395
- 19,120
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