books by author
Simon Winchester
The River at the Centre of the World
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Simon Winchester's Calcutta
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Outposts
Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
the meaning of everything
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Violins of Saint-Jacques (Twentieth Century Classics S.)
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption