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Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
35.00 AUD
Category: History | 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
24.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
26.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: How we acquire, retain and communicate knowledge from ancient times to the era of big data by Simon Winchester
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Named a Best History Book for 2023From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how te ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
24.99 AUD
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
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 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
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
24.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection by Simon Winchester
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Skulls is a beautiful spellbinding exploration of more than 300 different animal skulls—amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles—written by New York Times bestselling author, Simon Winchester and produced in collaboration with Theodore Gray and Touch Press, the geniuses behind The Elements and So ...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
24.99 AUD
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 Man Who Loved China : Joseph Needham : The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
23.99 AUD
32.99 (27% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham--the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, o ...Show more
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
27.99 AUD
Category: History | 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