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A Crack in the Edge of the World : The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
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 a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into gre ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - The great American earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
$29.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature | Reading Level: very good
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester. In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. A ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$26.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
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
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
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 effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$23.47 NZD
$26.99 (13% off)
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
Land - The Ownership of Everywhere (HB) by Simon Winchester
$60.85 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: near fine
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: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester
$15.95 NZD
Category: No Category
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean shaped the cl ...Show more
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
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
$26.99 NZD
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 Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson-better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll-dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, draped the folds of cloth low enough to expose her bare chest, asked her to look deep into his eyes-and then snap ...Show more