'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encou...

'A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book [Winchester] has crea...

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kinderga...

A New York Times Notable Book The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, g...

New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of th...

Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the ...

One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015

Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers...

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a...

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor a...

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of Wi...

Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the ear...

A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of ...

In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover...

?In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisf...

The Professor and the Madman

The Professor and the Madman

Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who ...

The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred ...

'In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisf...

'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encou...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mappe...

The fundamental questions at the heart of The Perfectionists are these: Why is precision importan...

Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis. Headline-making natural disasters with devastating consequences...

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In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known ...

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Indus...

Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology...

There is no more beautiful or alluring coast in the world than the West Coast of North America: a...

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic, a colorful and provo...

'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escala...

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examine...

The East Coast of North America is a wondrous, intriguing, yet threatened coastline. It zigs and ...

For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum—'Out of many, one'—has been featured on America's of...

An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remark...

From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into ...

Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspi...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of t...

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Winchester recounts the atomic tests on the atoll of Bikini. He takes us to the launch of “Gidget...

Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire...

No photographer until David Freese has explored the various and wondrous landscapes along the Pac...

Scott Conorroe?s project began as a study of Canadian and US railways, and then the coastlines of...

Acclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year's volume of the fines...

For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum—Out of many, one'—has been featured on America's off...

The reissue of a Simon Winchester classicIn 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to dis...

'Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifet...