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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: P.S. (Paperback) | Reading Level: very good
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world making it possible, ...Show more
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
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Category: Literary Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Now available in paperback, The Meaning of Everything is the absorbing story behind the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Originally mooted in 1857, it would be another 71 years before the British prime minister could celebrate the completion of 'the greatest enterprise of its kind in history'. I ...Show more
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
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Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. 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 how did America become 'one nation ...Show more
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation 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 how did America become 'one nation, ...Show more
The River at the Center of the World by WINCHESTER SIMON
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review. Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oil ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
"A wonderful story... It has all the ingredients of one of Patrick McGrath's icily stylish novels: madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy" - John Banville, Literary Review. Two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: one a ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins by Simon Winchester
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- ...Show more