Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester's many books include The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge of the World. Each of these has been a New York Times bestseller and has appeared on numerous best and notable ... [... more]
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Longitud
 From Amazon.com: The thorniest scientific problem of the eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-west position. This is the engrossing [... more]
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Larry Ashmead
Larry Ashmead recently retired after a long career as a book editor. The authors he has published include Isaac Asimov, Tony Hillerman, Susan Isaacs, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Simon Winchester. He lives in Stuyvesant, New York. [... more]
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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
From Amazon.com: Simon Winchester, a British newspaper reporter for 30 years and the author of 13 books (including The Professor and the Madman), has turned his attention to the Balkans, an area he visited years ago on a road trip from Vienna to Istanbul- [... more]
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Krakatoa CD: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Amazon.ca: In Krakatoa, the author of The Map That Changed the World and The Professor and the Madman focuses his considerable research powers on one of the most cataclysmic events of modern history: the volcanic eruption, in 1883, of the Southeast Asian [... more]
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La carte qui a changé le monde
Author: Simon Winchester Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 551'.092 EAN: 9782709623537 ISBN: 2709623536 Number Of Pages: 387 Publication Date: 2004-01-15 [... more]
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the ...
From Amazon.com: Once upon a time there lived a man who discovered the secrets of the earth. He traveled far and wide, learning about the world below the surface. After years of toil, he created a great map of the underworld and expected to live happily [... more]
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great ...
From Amazon.com: Geologically speaking, 1906 was a violent year: powerful, destructive earthquakes shook the ground from Taiwan to South America, while in Italy, Mount Vesuvius erupted. And in San Francisco, a large earthquake occurred just after five in [... more]
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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
From Amazon.com: In the tradition of small books that try to explain a lot (think How the Irish Saved Civilization), John Man's Alpha Beta is an excellent survey on the history of letters. They may have played a more dramatic role in the advancement of [... more]
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great ...
From Amazon.com: Geologically speaking, 1906 was a violent year: powerful, destructive earthquakes shook the ground from Taiwan to South America, while in Italy, Mount Vesuvius erupted. And in San Francisco, a large earthquake occurred just after five in [... more]
CDN$33.06
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Longitude
From Amazon.com: The thorniest scientific problem of the eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-west position. This is the engrossing [... more]
CDN$14.50
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Amazon.ca: In Krakatoa, the author of The Map That Changed the World and The Professor and the Madman focuses his considerable research powers on one of the most cataclysmic events of modern history: the volcanic eruption, in 1883, of the Southeast Asian [... more]
CDN$29.95
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