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About the Author

Simon Winchester was born in London, England on September 28, 1944. He read geology at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. After graduation in 1966, he joined a Canadian mining company and worked as field geologist in Uganda. The following year he decided to become a journalist. His first reporting mostrar mais job was for The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1969, he joined The Guardian and was named Britain's Journalist of the Year in 1971. He also worked for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times before becoming a freelancer. He is the author of numerous books including In Holy Terror, The River at the Center of the World, The Alice Behind Wonderland, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and.Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to journalism and literature. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por Simon Winchester

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (2003) — Narrador, algumas edições3,010 exemplares
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (2018) — Author & Narrator — 830 exemplares
The Alice Behind Wonderland (2011) 224 exemplares
The Best American Travel Writing 2009 (2009) — Editor — 124 exemplares
When the Earth Shakes (2015) 74 exemplares
Simon Winchester's Calcutta (2004) 70 exemplares
In Holy Terror (1974) 18 exemplares
Prison Diary, Argentina (1983) 14 exemplares
The End of the River (2020) 6 exemplares
The Fatal Equation 2 exemplares
The Classic Age 1 exemplar
"Word Imperfect" 1 exemplar
Shanghai Winchester (1999) 1 exemplar
Aerial Hong Kong 1 exemplar

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In Other Words (2004) — Prefácio, algumas edições411 exemplares
The Best American Travel Writing 2001 (2001) — Contribuidor — 236 exemplares
The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (2005) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
The Kindness of Strangers (2003) — Autor — 200 exemplares
Weird and Wonderful Words (2002) — Prefácio — 160 exemplares
By the Seat of My Pants (2005) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
Granta 73: Necessary Journeys (2001) — Contribuidor — 139 exemplares
Original Letters from India (1986) — Introdução, algumas edições126 exemplares
Tales from Nowhere (2006) — Contribuidor — 126 exemplares
Granta 56: What Happened to Us? (1996) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic (2006) — Introdução, algumas edições100 exemplares
The Best American Travel Writing 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (1990) — Contribuidor, algumas edições95 exemplares
Small World (1995) — Introdução, algumas edições57 exemplares
What’s Language Got to Do with It? (2005) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China (2013) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Extreme Earth (2003) — Prefácio — 17 exemplares
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1994 (1994) — Author "Eternal Argument" and "Two Centuries of the IRA" — 15 exemplares
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1996 (1996) — Author "The Escape of the Amethyst" — 11 exemplares

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Like all of Winchester’s books, interesting and full of both facts and the author’s beliefs. Was reminded that his true background is in geology . Particularly enjoyed the sections in the h bomb and on mount pinatubo
 
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cspiwak | 1 outra crítica | Mar 6, 2024 |
as with all winchester's books, full of interesting facts and asides from multiple disciplines. marred a bit by his imperialist tendencies and sometimes unsympathetic or carping nature. Yet I read everything he writes, as he certainly can write
 
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cspiwak | 65 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
Like all of winchester's books, I found it interesting and well written. Had more breadth than depth, but with the immensity of the topic, perhaps unavoidable
 
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cspiwak | 54 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
As always with Simon Winchester , we'll researched & interesting and marred by a bit of alpha male smugness.Sacajawea not important to the expedition, that is revisionist history.
 
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Obras
48
Also by
23
Membros
34,427
Popularidade
#550
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
922
ISBN
420
Línguas
18
Marcado como favorito
123

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