'en-bs' S WINCHESTER MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

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Dodatkowe informacje:
Stan: Używany
Okładka: miękka
Rok wydania (xxxx): 2002

SIMON WINCHESTER

THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

DANE TECHNICZNE (C1)
oprawa: miekka
liczba stron: 338
stan: bardzo dobry -

OPIS KSIĄŻKI:

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.