Libros de Simon Winchester

Los Perfeccionistas: Cómo La Precisión Creó El Mundo Moderno

• 367 páginas
• La perfección no existe, pero los desconocidos ingenieros que se han empeñado en alcanzarla han tenido más importancia en nuestra vida de lo que pensamos.

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Pacific

I Perfezionisti

Oxford

• Martin Parr, one of Britain's best-known contemporary photographers, and President of Magnum, the..

Map That Changed The World, The

• 368 páginas
• In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell—clear...

The Alice Behind Wonderland

• 128 páginas
• On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera,...

The Men Who United The States

• 496 páginas
• From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation.

Atlantic

• 498 páginas
• The enhanced e-book contains:15 videos with the author throughout the enhanced e-book, taking readers into his home and where he writes as he describes his travels around the Atlantic * A Personal Photo Album of Simon's travels not included in the...

The Best American Travel Writing 2009

• 351 páginas
• Acclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year’s volume of the finest travel writing from the past year. "Full of insights, humor, the exotic and distant, and the ordinary and near" ("Library...

Man Who Loved China, The

Crack In The Edge Of The World, A

• 512 páginas
• Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities...

The Map That Changed The World.

• 352 páginas
• Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769...

A Crack In The Edge Of The World

• A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of...

Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883

• 464 páginas
• Simon Winchester , New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman , examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The...

Korea

• 336 páginas
• In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea -- from its southern tip to the North Korean border -- in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land.

Outposts: Journeys To The Surviving Relics Of The British Empire

• 400 páginas
• 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 remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth,...

Surgeon Of Crowthorne

• 224 páginas