Simon Winchester | The Map That Changed the World
Recorded Oct 4, 2001
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Simon Winchester explores topics from the urbane to the catastrophic in his bestselling nonfiction books, which include The Professor and the Madman, an intriguing behind-the-scenes story of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary. In The Map That Changed the World, he unravels the tale of William Smith, the first geological cartographer of the world below the surface.
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