Simon Winchester

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale ...

Simon Winchester

The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed some ten thousand definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded:...

Simon Winchester

Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed some 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2003

A Crack in the Edge of the World: Ame...

Simon Winchester

An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of 1906, describing how it affected more than two hundred miles of California, triggered a vast firestorm, and destroyed the gold-rush c...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needh...

Simon Winchester

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. In 1937 Joseph Needham fell in lov...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2008

A Crack in the Edge of the World: Ame...

Simon Winchester

An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of 1906, describing how it affected more than two hundred miles of California, triggered a vast firestorm, and destroyed the gold-rush c...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

Pacific Low Price CD: Silicon Chips a...

Simon Winchester

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic, a colorful and provocative exploration of the modern Pacific Ocean Winchester focuses on key moments since 1950 that speak to the greater trends and larger t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2015

The Men Who United the States Low Pri...

Simon Winchester

For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum—Out of many, one"—has been featured on America's official government seals and stamped on its currency. But what unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern countr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013
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