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Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$20.00 AUD
$35.00 (42% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | 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
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: TRAVEL | 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
The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
The first geological map was made by an Oxfordshire farmer's son called William Smith. His life was beset with troubles: his work was plagiarized, he was imprisoned for debt, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him. This is the tale of his life and work in modern geology.
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
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$29.99 (66% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
William Smith was not rich or well-connected, but his passion for rocks and fossils, and his 20-year obsession with single-handedly mapping the geology of Britain made him one of the most significant men of the 19th century. But his vision cost him dear
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
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$29.99 (49% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and stamped on its currency. But how did America become 'one nation, ...Show more
The Pacific by Simon Winchester
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$65.95 (69% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
As well as providing encyclopaedia-style information - geophysical, meterological, historical and more - "The Pacific" offers anecdote and travelogue, the author's visit to Tonga, the zero date line from which can be seen 60 miles away a mountain top where the time is the same but the date is the previo ...Show more
The Sun Never Sets - Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire by Simon Winchester
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The Surgeon of Crowthorne - A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words by Simon Winchester
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
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
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