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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$14.99 AUD
Category: History
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 ...Show more
Tales from Nowhere 3e by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Simon Winchester; Don George; Tim Cahill; Jason Elliot; Pam Houston; Pico Iyer; Rolf Potts; Anthony Sattin; Danny Wallace
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* Unexpected stories from unexpected places. Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the ...Show more
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester OBE
$20.95 AUD
Category: Reference
'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of ...Show more
The River at the Center of the World by WINCHESTER SIMON
$33.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"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
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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
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