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Krakatoa
Krakatoa
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Simon Winchester
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...
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The Map That Changed the World
The Map That Changed the World
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Simon Winchester
From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology.

In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith,...

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The Meaning of Everything
The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
From the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa.

Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a...

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Outposts
Outposts
Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Simon Winchester

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...

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