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Title: Fascinating character study
Review: A year ago I'd never believe I would read, and with such pleasure, TWO books about surveyors. In THE MAP THAT--- Simon Winchester yet again pulls of the coup of mixing social history, geography, science, and psychology, in an engrossing tale of one ordinary man's extraordinary journey and vision. Winchester is to be thanked. Why on earth did we not all know William Smith and his epoch-making geological map? I recommend this book. A good read, even (in fact especially) if like me you know nothing about geology!The second book is THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS, by Ken Alder.
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