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Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | 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
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$59.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: very good
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$35.00 AUD
Category: General 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
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | 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: Social & Cultural Notes
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
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | 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
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | 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
Simon Winchester 4 Copy Mixed Pack by Winchester, Simon
$49.98 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
"Pack Contains 1x 9780008359157 Land 1x 9780008241780 Exactly 1x9780008196967 Pacific 1x 9780007341399 Atlantic"
Surgeon Of Crowthorne,the Cds by Simon Winchester
$25.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
W.C. Minor was one of the keenest volunteers involved in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. What the OED's editor, James Murray, didn't realize was that he was also a millionaire, American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder.
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: American | 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