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Map That Changed the World CD : William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Simon Winchester

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

By Simon Winchester

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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... read more

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

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

By Simon Winchester

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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... read more

The Professor and the Madman Unabrdged: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman Unabrdged: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Simon Winchester

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The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors... read more

Krakatoa, Simon Winchester

Krakatoa

By Simon Winchester

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The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000... read more

The Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon Winchester

The Alice Behind Wonderland

By Simon Winchester

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On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean,... read more

The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester

The Meaning of Everything

By Simon Winchester

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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... read more

The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester

The Man Who Loved China

By Simon Winchester

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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.... read more

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

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

By Simon Winchester

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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... read more

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire, Simon Winchester

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

By Simon Winchester

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Originally published in 1985, "Outposts" is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets." In this abridged audiobook, the author of "Krakatoa" and "Professor... read more