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After the 200-year anniversary of his birth in 2002, this biography brings this genius -- who called geology the most poetical of all the sciences -- to a wider audience.
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A biography of the self-educated man, a figure of renown in the 19th century whose literary genious and scientific acument resonates in the 21st century also. Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a stonemason's apprentice; he later became a social commentator and crusader.
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