Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester has written at least 76 books. Their most popular book is The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary with 305 saves with an average rating of 3.85⭐.

Author Bio

Author and journalist Simon Winchester was born in England but favours the United States.

The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
A Crack in the Edge of the World
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Exactly
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness & the Love of Words
Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham & the Great Secrets of China
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
The River At The Centre Of The World
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Stones of empire: The buildings of the Raj
Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic
Skulls
Simon Winchester's Calcutta
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Cascadia's Fault
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
A Moveable Feast
Original Letters from India
When the Sky Breaks
The Alice behind wonderland
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The Man with the Electrified Brain

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In Other Words

The End of the River
Oceano
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
The Cold War
Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte
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A Crack At the Edge of the World