Warwick Stubbs’s Reviews > The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science > Status Update

The Surgeon of Crowthorn, a book about words, was 200 pages long; every book after by Winchester seems to balloon well past that. This book needed more editing to remove repetitive points about Smith's map and character, as well as the geological history of the world which can be found in other books - much feels like padding, because William Smith's story isn't that interesting, at least not for 300 pages!