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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
by 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 also... Read More
Publication Date: October 2006
 
 
 



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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by 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 -- Krakatoa. ... Read More
Publication Date: July 2005
 
 
 



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Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
by Simon Winchester  
In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea -- from its southern tip to the North Korean border -- in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and... Read More
Publication Date: June 2005
 
 
 



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Simon Winchester's Calcutta
by Simon Winchester  
Calcutta is a city in a state of permanent surprise, where amazement is around every crumbling corner, and astonishment lurks over every rickshaw-puller's shoulder. It is a city that never ceases to shock those who pass through, and it is... Read More
Publication Date: November 2004
 
 
 



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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of hte Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester  
From the bestselling author of
The Professor and the Madman,
The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa

Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays... Read More
Publication Date: September 2004
 
 
 



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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
by Simon Winchester  
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles... Read More
Publication Date: June 2004
 
 
 



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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
by Simon Winchester  
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal... Read More
Publication Date: April 2004
 
 
 



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The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester  
From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology

In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn... Read More
Publication Date: August 2002
 
 
 



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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
by 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... Read More
Publication Date: October 2000
 
 
 



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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
by 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. Reprint.... Read More
Publication Date: September 1999
 
 
 



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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by 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. Reprint.... Read More
Publication Date: September 1999
 
 
 
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