The map that changed the world

Informationen zum Autor Simon Winchester has had an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent. He lives in New York and is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC. He has written numerous books. The River at the Centre of the World (Viking 1997/Penguin 1998) has been shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. Klappentext Simon Winchester has had an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent. He lives in New York and is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC. He has written numerous books. The River at the Centre of the World (Viking 1997/Penguin 1998) has been shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. Zusammenfassung 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. This title tells his story.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Winchester
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2002
• EAN: 9780140280395
• ISBN: 978-0-14-028039-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Smith, William, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, HISTORY / Historical Geography, Cartography, map-making & projections, Cartography, map-making and projections, Biography: historical, political and military, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Historical Geography