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Simon Winchester
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as…
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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it…
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'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times
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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who…
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A book about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and the love of words. It tells of the relationship between the dictionary editor and one of its main contributors…
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Simon Winchester’s The Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the…
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The creation of the first Oxford English Dictionary was an extraordinary endeavour, lasting over 70 years. In The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester recounted one fascinating episode; in The…
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A burgeoning city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. In 1906 the dreams of this city, came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying…
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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire…
Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London’s Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world…
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"Simon Winchester's Journeys Across Continents: Exploring the Diversity of the World" invites readers on an exhilarating expedition across the globe, guided by the keen eye and insatiable curiosity of renowned…
For the past ten years, Christopher Payne has embarked on a photographic journey to learn more about American manufacturing and the industries that built this country. He has gained access…
From the New York Times -bestselling author of A Crack in the Edge of the World and Krakatoa comes this epic look at the Atlantic Ocean–its history, geography, importance, and…
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Land–whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city–is central to our existence. Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing, and have done…
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes this is award winning writer Simon Winchester s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how…
In 1985 the author, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean…
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China, pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the…
The riveting true story of Dr. W.C. Minor–the ingenious but insane American Civil War veteran who contributed more than 10,000 definitions to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the…
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement–precision–in a superb…
The author explores the notion of property–man’s proprietary relationship with the land–through human history, how it has shaped people, and what it will mean for the future.he future.
From internationally bestselling author Simon Winchester, a vibrant history of the collection and dissemination of knowledge.
Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing photograph whose subject inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation.
One of Library Journal s 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling…
The definitive biography of the world’s most important body of water - the Atlantic.
The revered New York Times -bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement–precision.over.
Explores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity’s proprietary relationship with land means…
"A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history…
Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and broadcasting, an award-winning writer explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge.
"A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book [Winchester] has created a vivid parable, in the spirit of Nabokov and Borges. There is…
New York Times bestselling author, Simon Winchester tells the gripping story of what happens when the earth shakes, explodes, or floods. Stunning geological and historical images from the Smithsonian, handy…
The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British Empire…
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the…
Chronicles the destruction of Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883. This book describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned…
"The Professor and the Madman," masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making…
Author and Historian Simon Winchester
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman turns his journalistic skills to the eternal strangeness of southeast Europe, the region known as the Balkans, and goes behind the…
Now in paperback comes the New York Times bestseller on the catastrophic eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883, and its lasting and world-changing effects. 57 line drawings. 18 halftones…
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa takes an adventurous and informative look at earthquakes, focusing on the devastating San Francisco quake of 1906. Illustrations…
Simon Winchester travelled through Korea on foot to write this book. Along the way, he befriended a variety of honeymooners, corporate executives, Buddhist nuns and American servicemen. The result is…
