Simon Winchester
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$29.99 Read more“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”–Boston Globe
The auth
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062938339
- Language: English
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
$21.99 Add to cart“Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.” —Kirkus Review
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061702625
- Language: English
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
$16.99 Add to cartOne of Library Journal‘s 10 Best Books of 2015
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0062315420
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
$39.00 Read more“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 . . . as a promulgator of knowledg
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 006329723X
- Language: English
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
$21.00 Add to cartThe 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 ear
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 60838590
- Language: English
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$21.99 Add to cartExplores 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 mean
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062938347
- Language: English
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
$18.99 Add to cart“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 much truth to be drawn from it, abou
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063341905
- Language: English
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
$19.99 Add to cart“Another gem from one of the world’s justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.” — Booklist (starred review)
The revered New York Times bestsellin
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0062652567
- Language: English
