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Simon Winchester

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The Professor and the Madman

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 12-16-99
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The Professor and the Madman

The Professor and the Madman

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Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
Duane Leishman says: "A Hard Facet Of A Shinning Jewel Of A Book."
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 10-27-15
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

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Best-selling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
Mark says: "Ponderous hard to keep attention"
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883

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- By Simon Winchester
- Narrated By Simon Winchester
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release Date: 01-14-04
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883

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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 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event which has only very recently become properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round the world for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid.
Janice says: "The shot heard 'round the world."
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

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- By Simon Winchester
- Narrated By Simon Winchester
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 01-22-04
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

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

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In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. While surveying the route for a canal near Bath, he noticed that the fossils found in one layer of the rocks he was excavating were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany: that by following these fossils one could trace layers of rocks as they dipped, rose and fell, clear across England and clear across the world.
Jody R. Nathan says: "Who knew rocks could be so deceptive?"
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The Man Who Loved China

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 05-06-08
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The Man Who Loved China

The Man Who Loved China

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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.
David Ewing says: "Great for Winchester Fans"
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

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- By Simon Winchester
- Narrated By Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 10-05-05
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

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

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The international best-selling 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 fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.
Cathy says: "Captured by science dressed as a yarn. . ."
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 10-15-13
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

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How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators. Introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
Andy says: "deserves seven stars"
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 11-02-10
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

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Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Spanning the ocean's story, from its geological origins to the age of exploration, from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and overfishing, Winchester's narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring.
Paul says: "Another winner from Simon"
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 01-14-04
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

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Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of the most venerable of dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary.
Donald says: "A New Appreciation"
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An Interview with Simon Winchester

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 17 mins
- Release Date: 10-05-05
An Interview with Simon Winchester

An Interview with Simon Winchester

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In this interview, Simon Winchester, the international best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, talks about his new book, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.
Gregory says: "Winchester as Fascinating an Interviewee as Author"
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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

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- By Simon Winchester
- Narrated By Simon Winchester
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 04-21-05
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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

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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 remains of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean to the Far East, to capture a last glint of imperial glory.
J. S. Koehler says: "Nice Travelogue"
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Alice Behind Wonderland

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 05-24-11
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Alice Behind Wonderland

Alice Behind Wonderland

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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, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image - as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless speculation - as the vehicle for a brief excursion behind the lens, a focal point on the origins of a classic work of English literature.
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The Meaning of Everything

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 07-11-11
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The Meaning of Everything

The Meaning of Everything

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The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary was a remarkable achievement, and a story of determination, hard work and inspired research. Simon Winchester, with his characteristic gift for bringing history to life, charts the fascinating life of the OED leading up to the appointment of the first editor, James Murray, in 1879, through to the OED's triumphant publication in 1928 and beyond. The Meaning of Everything is a must for anyone with an interest in language and words.
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

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- By Simon Winchester
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- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 10-22-15
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

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Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It is the stuff of the towering Captain Cook and his wide-ranging network of exploring voyages, Robert Louis Stevenson and Admiral Halsey.
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

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- By Simon Winchester
- Narrated By Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 10-12-05
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

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

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The international best-selling 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 fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.
Julia says: "This book does not succeed"