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"Simon Winchester can take the most banal seeming topics, things you've never even heard of, and make them seem like the most gripping, fascinating episodes in all of human history. The first ever topographical map may seem like a dry subject, but he breathes such life into the story and players that you are completely drawn in."
Jenny Caplan - Books & Co., Dayton, OH

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Winchester tells the fascinating story of an Oxfordshire blacksmith's orphaned son who discovered an unmistakable pattern in the rocks. From this, William Smith developed the first true geographical map following fossils and rock patterns, earning him a place in history as the father of modern geology. Line drawings. Maps throughout, 2 in color.

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