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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Used book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> Little more than a hundred years ago Sandford Fleming a youngemigrant from Scotland solved the unfathomable temporal riddleof how to knit together a world stippled with thousands of localtimes. Standard Time was his solution and few great technologicalinventions are both as invisible and as important.An absorbing reflection on the mythic origins of time itself TimeLord is also a fascinating meditation on science psychiatry art andliterature. But at the heart of the story is the mild but fierce-mindedcommunications genius who sketched and surveyed his way fromocean to ocean oversaw the building of the great Canadian rail-road designed the first Beaver postage stamp and invented theworld-circling sub-Pacific cable; who saw the world as a wholeand changed its nature forever.