The Man Who Loved China
, by Winchester, Simon- ISBN: 9780060884611 | 0060884614
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/16/2010
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.