Winchester Simon:
Bomb, Book And Compass
Joseph Needham And The Great Secrets Of China
Penguin Books Ltd (United Kingdom), 2009
Paperback, 336 pages
Size: 198x129 mm
ISBN: 9780141011585
ISBN-10: 0141011580
List price: £9.99
You save: 30%
Bomb, Book And Compass
Inspired by a wartime mission to occupied China, Joseph Needham started writing what would become a twenty-four-volume masterpiece, chronicling the nation's history of invention and technology over five thousand years. This book tells the story of Joseph Needham, his book, the passion that inspired it, and the rise of Chinese nation.

