Simon Winchester, preisgekrönter britischer Journalist und erfolgreicher Sachbuchautor, hat als Auslandskorrespondent aus fast allen Ländern der Welt berichtet. Mit seinem Erfolgstitel “Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte” eroberte er erstmals die Bestsellerlisten. Sein Buch “Krakatau” bekam durch die Tsunamis im Dezember 2004 dramatische Aktualität. 2006 erschien das Buch “Ein Riss durch die Welt”, in dem Winchester eine detaillierte Beschreibung der Katastrophe des Erdbebens von San Francisco vor 100 Jahren abgibt. Er lebte in Asien und Afrika; heute ist er auf einer kleinen Farm in Massachusetts zu Hause. Simon Winchesters Werk erscheint seit vielen Jahren im Knaus Verlag.
39 Ebooks by Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester: Atlantic
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 …
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Simon Winchester: Men Who United the States
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 …
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Simon Winchester: Pacific
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 …
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Simon Winchester: Exactly
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to …
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Simon Winchester: Man Who Loved China
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman("Elegant and scrupulous"New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa("A mesme …
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Simon Winchester: Professor and the Madman
A New York Times Notable Book The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford Englis …
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Simon Winchester: Fracture Zone
A True Portrait of One of the World’s Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There–And Why It May Continue For Years To Come The vast and mountainous area …
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Simon Winchester: Korea
In the late 1980s, New York Timesbestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea – from its southern tip to the North Korean border – in order to set the record …
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Simon Winchester: Map That Changed the World
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as t …
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Simon Winchester: Outposts
The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empire Originally published in 1985, …
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Simon Winchester: Atlantic
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." Kirkus …
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Simon Winchester: Men Who United the States
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates t …
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Simon Winchester: Crack in the Edge of the World
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madmanand Krakatoavividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America’s relentless western ex …
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Simon Winchester: Krakatoa
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madmanand The Map That Changed the Worldexamines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the eart …
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Simon Winchester: Pacific
One of Library Journals 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of …
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Simon Winchester: Perfectionists
Another gem from one of the worlds justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.Booklist(starred review)The revered New York Times bestselling autho …
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Simon Winchester: Alice Behind Wonderland
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 dean, w …
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Simon Winchester: Alice Behind Wonderland
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 dean, w …
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Simon Winchester: Bomb, Book and Compass
Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-D …
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Simon Winchester: Crack in the Edge of the World
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of thi …
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Simon Winchester: Outposts
The reissue of a Simon Winchester classic In 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire travelled 100, 000 miles back and forth from Antarc …
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Simon Winchester: Krakatoa
‘Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension’ Sunday Telegraph Simon Winchester’s brilliant chronicle of the destruc …
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Simon Winchester: River at the Centre of the World
Simon Winchester undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangste River to its source. This is the story of the river, it’s cities and their people, built around the author’s own journey to discove …
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Simon Winchester: Map That Changed the World
THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London’s Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map – the first geolo …
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Simon Winchester: Surgeon of Crowthorne
An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary – and literary history!The compilatio …
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Adam Van Doren: An Artist in Venice
An artist’s illustrated love letter to the Italian city of Venice. If you can’t wait to see the Italian city of Venice for the first time or to return, you’ll be captivated by this journey. Adam Van …
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Wickham Boyle & Tim Cahill: Lonely Planet By the Seat of My Pants
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Humorous tales of travel and misadventure.Lonely Planet knows that some of life’s funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take …
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Tim Cahill & Dave Eggers: Lonely Planet The Kindness of Strangers
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher*A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and …
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Simon Winchester: Land
In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchesters previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.Boston Globe The author …
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Simon Winchester: Land
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 p …
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Simon Winchester: Los perfeccionistas
La perfección no existe, pero los desconocidos ingenieros que se han empeñado en alcanzarla han tenido más importancia en nuestra vida de lo que pensamos. A través de anécdotas y ejemplos, teje la hi …
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Simon Winchester: The End of the River
When it comes to climate-change-inspired threats, it is rising sea levels we hear most about. But if the oceans are, as Herman Melville put it, “the tide-beating heart of the earth, ” rivers are its …
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Simon Winchester: Knowing What We Know
‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times’An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly …
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Simon Winchester: Knowing What We Know
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classesthis is award winning writer Simon Winchestersbrilliant and all-encompassing look at how h …
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Laurie Lee: Cider with Rosie
“A remarkable book written with such dazzling verbal imagery and such relish in all the sensations of being alive that it is magically contagious.”—New York Times A beloved classic—more than six mill …
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Simon Winchester: Korea
Korea: A Walk through the Land of Miracles is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand a nation that is shaping the modern world. In the 1980s South Korea was still an enigma. Simon Winchester …
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