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Télécharger The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption (English Edition) de Simon Winchester livre En ligne 📘 LIRE EN LIGNE 📥 TÉLÉCHARGER Télécharger "The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption (English Edition)" de Simon Winchester Pdf Epub Auteur : Simon Winchester Catégorie : Ebooks Kindle,Ebooks en langues étrangères,Par langue Broché : * pages Éditeur : * Langue : Français, Anglais The extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology. 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: he was imprisoned for debt, turned out of his home, his work was plagiarised, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him. It was not until 1829, when a Yorkshire aristocrat r...