Simon Winchester

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale ...

Simon Winchester

The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed some ten thousand definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale ...

Simon Winchester

The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed 10,000 definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane. Rep...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2005

The Men Who United the States: Americ...

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 men who toiled fearlessly to dis...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2014

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded:...

Simon Winchester

Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed some 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2003

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded:...

Simon Winchester

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Kra...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2005

A Crack in the Edge of the World: Ame...

Simon Winchester

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has al...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2006

Atlantic: The Biography of an Ocean

Simon Winchester

The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester For thousands of years the Atlantic Ocean was viewed by mariners with a mixture of awe, terror and amazement -- an impassable barrier to the unkn...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2011

A Crack in the Edge of the World: Ame...

Simon Winchester

An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of 1906, describing how it affected more than two hundred miles of California, triggered a vast firestorm, and destroyed the gold-rush c...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needh...

Simon Winchester

In sumptuous and illuminating detail Simon Winchester chronicles the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who turned his eccentric genius on the study of China. In 1937 Joseph Needham fell in lov...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2008

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantasti...

Simon Winchester

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ('Elegant and scrupulous'—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ('A mesmerizing page-turner'—Time) brings to life t...

Paperback
Published: May 2009

The Fracture Zone: My Return to the B...

Simon Winchester

A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To Come The vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rif...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2000
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