Not sure what it is, but I found this less satisfying than The Professor and the Madman a book I really loved.
I like Winchester, and I like volcanoes and other geological formations, but this did not quite cohere in a compelling way. It's hard to say why, since I enjoyed the history, first-person accounts, digressions into topics such as transcontinental communication, and discussion of subduction zones. Ho...
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