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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
(Hardcover, 2001)
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Author: Simon Winchester
Winchester, acclaimed for THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, tells the story of William Smith, who in 181...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0060193611
ISBN-13: 9780060193614
Aug 2001
Publisher: Harpercollins
336 pages
Illustrated
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Winchester, acclaimed for THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, tells the story of William Smith, who in 1815--despite his lower-class status--laid the foundations for modern geology. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
| Size | | Length: | 336 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[An] eloquent narrative...."
Times Literary Supplement - C. Vita-Finzi (07/13/2001)
"Winchester brings Smith's struggle to life in clear and beautiful language, the richness of which he continues to celebrate."
New York Times Book Review - Malcolm C. McKenna (08/05/2001)
"A fluid, fascinating, emotional story of an unlikely genius who created a science."
Kirkus Reviews (05/15/2001)
"Simon Winchester has done a considerable service to geology in rescuing Smith from comparative obscurity."
London Review of Books - Richard Fortey (08/09/2001)
"...I can summarize my feelings about Simon Winchester's book in a statement that I do not intend as a disparagement of his fine effort, but as an admirer's attempt to raise a serious issue about a wonderful, fascinating, heretofore neglected, and vitally important story. I do not understand why Winchester could achieve such clear and singular success in avoiding the trap of canonical legends, as he presents the life of William Smith in all its complexity and contradiction, and then fall so deeply and precipitously into the pit of caricature and oversimplification when he treats the surrounding scientific ideas about time and fossils, thus reinventing a Smith of ideological cardboard...."
New York Review of Books - Stephen Jay Gould (10/04/2001)
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