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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:51:48 -0600
From: Bill Thoen <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: For the Latin scholars amongst you + a new book I found (fwd)

> From: Virginia R. Hetrick <[log in to unmask]>

> Second, today at Costco I came on the book below which I that y'all might be
> interested in reading.  I got home and started reading it almost instantly (one
> very short side trip to the kitchen to put the groceries away).  It is:
>
> Simon Winchester.  (2001) The Map that Changed the World:  William Smith and the
> Birth of Modern Geology.  Harper Collins is the publisher and it was $14.99 at
> Costco (list is $26.00).  ISBN is:  0-06-019361-1.

The jacket on the hardcover version is unusual too. It unfolds into
a full-size map of england's geology. Not the eight foot size of the
original, but still quite nice. I've only just started it myself,
but if it's as good as his previous ("The Professor and the Madman",
the story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary), it
should be a good read.

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- Bill Thoen
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