The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

ISBN-13: 9780140280395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str.

Simon Winchester

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In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured - in sea-blue, green, bright yellow, orange, umber - it presented England and Wales in a beguiling and unfamiliar mixture of lines and patches and stippled shapes. It was the product of one man's obsession with rocks, a passion that sustained him whilst the rest of his life slid into ruin.