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Simon Winchester
'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times
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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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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…
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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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 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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital age, exploring the single component precision.
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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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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…
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Laurie Lee
"A remarkable book written with such dazzling verbal imagery and such relish in all the sensations of being alive that it is magically contagious."--New York Times
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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…
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 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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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…
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.
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…
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.
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 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.
"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…
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.
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…
"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…
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 definitive biography of the world’s most important body of water - the Atlantic.
From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation.
From internationally bestselling author Simon Winchester, a vibrant history of the collection and dissemination of knowledge.
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.
"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…
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 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…
Acclaimed writer Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year’s volume of the finest travel writing from the past year, providing a collection that is full of insights, humor…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
Originally published in 2013 by HarperCollins.
Martin Parr,Simon Winchester
A wonderful photo-documentary account of a year in the life of Oxford University, created by the renowned photo-journalist Martin Parr. His exquisite behind-the-scenes images are accompanied by Simon Winchester’s witty…
Adam Van Doren
The city of Venice has always provided an almost irresistible lure for both writers and artists. Henry James loved it, as did Ruskin, Browning, Pound, and Brodsky. For artists, it…
