How Many Molehills in a Mountain?

Measuring what you don't know in terms of what you do

Marcus Weeks

If we were to tell you that a blue whale weighs 170 tonnes, you would know that it’s a lot bigger than your average fish. But does the number really convey its size? If, instead, we were to say that the whale’s tongue weighs the same as a single African elephant, then you might grasp its magnitude. This book reveals the world through visual equivalents – so that size, speed and mass make instant sense.

Marcus Weeks has contributed to many encyclopedic titles and is an avid collector of dictionaries and compiler of crosswords.

  • 128 pages
  • h 195mm x w 145 mm
  • hardback
  • full colour throughout
  • 28,000 words
  • Printed ISBN:978-1-907332-26-5

The following rights for this title have already been sold:

UK
US
Canadian
Chinese (simplified)
German
Korean
Russian
Thai

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