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The map that changed the world : William Smith and the birth of modern geology
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The map that changed the world : William Smith and the birth of modern geology

Author: Simon Winchester; Soun Vannithone
Publisher: New York, NY : HarperCollins, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Smith, a canal digger, spent twenty years working on the first geological map of the British Isles which he published in 1815.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: William Smith; William Smith; William Smith
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Simon Winchester; Soun Vannithone
ISBN: 0060193611 9780060193614
OCLC Number: 45799894
Description: xix, 329 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Contents: Escape on the Northbound stage --
Land awakening from sleep --
Mystery of the Chedworth bun --
Duke and the Baronet's widow --
Light in the underworld --
Slicing of Somerset --
View from York Minster --
Notes from the swan --
Dictator in the drawing room --
Great map conceived --
Jurassic interlude --
Map that changed the world --
Ungentlemanly act --
Sale of the century --
Wrath of Leviathan --
Lost and found man --
All honor to the doctor.
Responsibility: Simon Winchester ; [illustrations by Soun Vannithone].
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Smith, a canal digger, spent twenty years working on the first geological map of the British Isles which he published in 1815.

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