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A Crack in the Edge of the World - The great American earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The international bestselling 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 sub ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$20.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester
The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
$15.00 NZD
Category: Reference
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a remarkable achievement, the story of which has been aching to be told. Who better to take on the challenge than the talented story-teller Simon Winchester? With his characteristic gift for bringing history alive, in The Meaning of Everything Simon Winche ...Show more
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | 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 Centre of the World - A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
The mighty Yangtze splits China in two, between the wheat-growing North and the rice-growing South; almost 500 million people live and work along its banks. In this compelling book, award-winning writer Simon Winchester and his plucky companion Lily travelled upstream all the way from bustling cosmopoli ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne - A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words by Simon Winchester
$12.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a fifty-year task requiring the assistance of thousands of volunteers - one of the keenest a W C Minor. Minor was a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder. Here Simon Winchester tells this uplifting ...Show more
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