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 enigmatic and...

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 of China...

"The Man Who Loved China" von Simon Winchester erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte von Joseph Needham, einem exzentrischen britischen Wissenschaftler und Sinologen. Das Buch beschreibt Needhams lebenslange Leidenschaft für China und...

"Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic" von Simon Winchester untersucht die Entwicklung und Verbreitung von Wissen im Laufe der Menschheitsgeschichte. Das Buch beleuchtet, wie Wissen von...

"The Best American Travel Writing 2009," herausgegeben von Simon Winchester, ist eine Sammlung von herausragenden Reiseessays, die im Jahr 2009 veröffentlicht wurden. Diese Anthologie bietet eine vielfältige Auswahl an Geschichten, die...

"The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" von Simon Winchester ist ein Sachbuch, das die Entwicklung der Präzisionstechnik und ihren Einfluss auf die moderne Welt beleuchtet. Winchester erzählt die Geschichte...

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Simon Winchester has had an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent. He lives in New York and is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as the Daily...

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 volcano --...

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and...

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. von Winchester, Simon