---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:08:17 -0400 From: Stephen Baig <[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) The book received good reviews in two of the periodicals I read, neither of which are dedicated to science. I'll not wait for the Miami Herald review, the book editor having re-invented herself from fashion editor. Stephen Baig > >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. > >-- >- Bill Thoen