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The Professor and the Madman (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (11,393 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 7 hour 21 min
Release Date: 12/16/1999
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged
Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery. Professor James Murray was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester...

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (2,244 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 12 hours and 30 min.
Release Date: 10/5/2005
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged
The international best-selling 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...

The Man Who Loved China (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (718 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 9 hour 11 min
Release Date: 4/25/2008
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged
Here is the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester chronicles the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham,...

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (11,393 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 11 hour 58 min
Release Date: 1/14/2004
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa (the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster) was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly...

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 (1,090 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 9 hour 59 min
Release Date: 1/22/2004
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged
In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. While surveying the route...

The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5  (Not Yet Rated)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 8 hours and 7 min.
Release Date: 12/29/2011
Narrator: Steven Crossley
Format: Unabridged
Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse...

Alice Behind Wonderland (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 (36 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 2 hour 45 min
Release Date: 5/24/2011
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged
On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college...

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (231 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 14 hours and 30 min.
Release Date: 10/25/2010
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged
From best-selling author Simon Winchester comes the immense and thrilling story of the world's most mysterious and breathtaking natural wonder: the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous...

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (2,244 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 7 hours and 30 min.
Release Date: 10/12/2005
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Abridged
The international best-selling 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...

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (177 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 6 hours and 46 min.
Release Date: 4/21/2005
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Abridged
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all...

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Unabridged)

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (11,393 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 7 hours and 8 min.
Release Date: 1/14/2004
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Format: Unabridged
Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster...

The Professor and the Madman

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Avg. Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (11,393 ratings)
Author: Simon Winchester
Audio Length: 3 hour 0 min
Release Date: 12/16/1999
Narrator: Simon Jones
Format: Abridged
Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery. Professor James Murray was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester...



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