The Map That Changed the World
Subtitle: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Contributors: Soun Vannithone (Illustrator)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: August 7, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780060193614
First sentence: The last day of August 1819, a Tuesday, dawned gray, showery, and refreshingly cool in London, promising a welcome end to a weeklong spell of close and muggy weather that seemed to have put all the capital's citizens in a nettlesome, liverish mood.