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A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester
$12.00 AUD
Category: General History
The international bestselling author of "The Professor and the Madman" and "Krakatoa" takes an adventurous and informative look at earthquakes, focusing on the devastating San Francisco quake of 1906. Illustrations & maps throughout.
The Pacific by Simon Winchester
$9.95 AUD
Category: General 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
The Surgeon of Crowthorne - A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words by Simon Winchester
$12.00 AUD
Category: General History
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
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
$6.50 AUD
Category: General History
"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
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