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Simon Winchester

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.)

Harper Perennial (May 01, 2009)

9780060884611

| Paperback

352 pages | 135 x 203 mm | English

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Dewey 920

Subject

Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
History / Asia / China
Science / General

Plot

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, once the world's most technologically advanced country.