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  <title><![CDATA[The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire]]></title>
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