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      The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      Traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital age, exploring the single component precision.

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      The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, at the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      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…

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      Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role…

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      Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the New York Times -bestselling author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against…

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      A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      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…

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      The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans

      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…

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      The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      Originally published in 2013 by HarperCollins.

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      Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      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…

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      Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      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…

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      Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the New York Times -bestselling author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against…

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      The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

      Author and Historian Simon Winchester

      Winchester tells the fascinating story of an Oxfordshire blacksmith’s orphaned son who discovered an unmistakable pattern in the rocks. From this, William Smith developed the first true geographical map following…

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