The year 2003 saw Winchester release another book on the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, The Meaning of Everything, as well as the best-selling Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded.
Urn:oclc:422939887 Republisher_date 20120402022719 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120401020507 Scanner . His 2001 book, The Map that Changed the World, focused on geologist William Smith and was Whichesters second New York Times best seller. OL15843987W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.84 Pages 360 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0061767905
With a keen eye and thoughtful detail, Simon Winchester unfolds the poignant sacrifice behind this world-changing discovery. Urn:lcp:mapthatchanged00winc:epub:627eceb6-38c2-40d6-a74c-d3ea8fdecbba Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mapthatchanged00winc Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7np35f4g Isbn 9780060931803Ġ060931809 Lccn 2001016603 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL23245710M Openlibrary_edition In the 1790s, Smith, an English surveyor and amateur fossil hunter with little formal education, was hired to survey possible canal routes across the country, a job that required a deep. The Map That Changed the World is a very human tale of endurance and achievement, of one mans dedication in the face of ruin. Urn:lcp:mapthatchanged00winc:lcpdf:27faee85-ad5e-4673-b650-f5b9d1cf49bd He has followed his popular history of the OED, The Professor and the Madman, with the story of another almost-forgotten English innovator. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:09:15 Boxid IA173101 Boxid_2 BWB220141008 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Edition 1st Perennial ed.
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