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Travel
A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review. Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart... See More
History
One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring... A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred... See More
History
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous... See More
History
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 Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring... A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred... See More
Parenting & Relationships
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, with a Thomas Ottewill... See More
History
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 that makes up the... See More
History
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 they dipped and rose and... See More
History
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon... See More
"Another gem from one of the world's justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people." -- Booklist (starred review) The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the... See More
History
"In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole... Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide." -- Boston Globe The author of The Professor and... See More
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 mesmerizing page-turner" -- Time)... See More
History
"Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging."... See More
Literature & Fiction
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 English Dictionary -- and... See More
In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling 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 straight about this... See More
History
For 77 days - including the entire period of the Falklands War - Simon Winchester of the Sunday Times was kept in prison by the Argentine authorities. Together with two other British journalists he was held in a tiny cell... See More
Children's eBooks
New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester looks at which way the wind blows in this exciting book about giant storms. Simon Winchester is an avid weather watcher. He's scanned the skies in Oklahoma, waiting for the... See More
Children's eBooks
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis. Headline-making natural disasters with devastating consequences for millions of people. But what do we actually know about these literally earth-shaking events? New York Times... See More
Travel
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 the form of unexpected... See More
History
Of all the periods of violent unrest which have beset Northern Ireland's brief history, there was none more tragic and divisive than the bout of killing which began in the summer of 1968. In 1969, as a young reporter, Simon... See More
Literature & Fiction
The Man with The Electrified Brain • "The mind can be a fragile gift. Sometimes it fails us, and often when we need it most. Happily, mine appears to be working reliably now, and so I am perhaps as able as most to... See More
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 transform the... See More
History
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 circulatory system. In the... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
Winchester writes of the peculiarly English tradition of handing law-making ability to people who have had the simple good fortune of being born into the right family. He travels the height and breadth of British Isles in... See More