The map that changed the world
Subtitle: William Smith and the birth of modern geology
By: Simon Winchester
Series: Wheeler large print book series
Publisher: Wheeler Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Rockland, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9781587241536
Subjects: Large type books; Stratigraphic Geology; Geologists; Biography; History
Notes: Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, c2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-432).
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Escape on the northbound stage -- -- 2.; title: A land awakening from sleep -- -- 3.; title: The mystery of the Chedworth Bun -- -- 4.; title: The Duke and the Baronet's widow -- -- 5.; title: A light in the underworld -- -- 6.; title: The slicing of Somerset -- -- 7.; title: The view from York Minster -- -- 8.; title: Notes from the Swan -- -- 9.; title: The dictator in the drawing room -- -- 10.; title: The great map conceived -- -- 11.; title: A Jurassic interlude -- -- 12.; title: The map that changed the world -- -- ch. 13.; title: An ungentlemanly act -- -- 14.; title: The sale of the century -- -- 15.; title: The wrath of Leviathan -- -- 16.; title: The lost and found man -- -- ch. 17.; title: All honor to the doctor.