Nairn In Darkness and Light
by Thomson, David
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/Not Applicable
- ISBN 10
- 0099599902
- ISBN 13
- 9780099599906
- Seller
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Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
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Synopsis
Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback for 2002. 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 recognised his genius, that he was returned to London in triumph: The Map That Changed the World is his story.
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- Bookseller
- Reading Habit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIOUK273
- Title
- Nairn In Darkness and Light
- Author
- Thomson, David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Applicable
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0099599902
- ISBN 13
- 9780099599906
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Autobiography, Memoir, Scotland, Scottish, Nairn, David Thomson
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.