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The Map That Changed the World pre ITALIAN DICTIONARIES Tolkien invented and illustrated theFollowing 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,