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Simon winchester has had an awardwinning 20 year career as guardian correspondent. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. From the author of the bestselling the professor and the madman comes the fascinating story of william smith, the orphaned son of an english country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world s first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology in 1793 william smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to. Winchester was awarded an order of the british empire obe for his services to journalism and literature. With a keen eye and thoughtful detail, simon winchester unfolds the poignant sacrifice behind this worldchanging discovery. Simon winchester is the bestselling author of atlantic, the man who loved china, a crack in the edge of the world, krakatoa, the map that changed the world, the surgeon of crowthorne the professor and the madman, the fracture zone, outposts and korea, among many other titles. Americas explorers, inventors, eccentrics and mavericks, and the creation of one nation, indivisible. In his career at the guardian newspaper, winchester covered numerous significant events, including bloody sunday and the watergate scandal. The map that changed the world a tale of rocks, ruin and redemption by simon winchester. Simon winchester explores topics from the urbane to the catastrophic in his bestselling nonfiction books, which include the professor and the madman, an intriguing behindthescenes story of the writing of the oxford english dictionary. William smith and the birth of modern geology full pages self. This is about william smith creating the first geographical map of britain.
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