Winchester, Simon
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Winchester, Simon
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The person Winchester, Simon represents an individual (alive, dead, undead, or fictional) associated with resources found in Morgan County Public Library.
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- Simon Winchester recreates the storylines of history, uncovering details and characters that may have been lurking in the shadows, all in an attempt to brighten our understanding of the world around us today. A microhistory quality emerges from his focus on specific events and the unique people who create our common human history. He employs dramatic tension with a celebratory and investigative tone conveyed in precise, clear language to bridge the gap between the expert and the layperson. Start with: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
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- Simon Winchester recreates the storylines of history, uncovering details and characters that may have been lurking in the shadows, all in an attempt to brighten our understanding of the world around us today. A microhistory quality emerges from his focus on specific events and the unique people who create our common human history. He employs dramatic tension with a celebratory and investigative tone conveyed in precise, clear language to bridge the gap between the expert and the layperson. Start with: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
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- British
- English
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- trueThe professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
- trueThe map that changed the world : William Smith and the birth of modern geology
- trueThe meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English dictionary
- trueThe men who united the States : America's explorers, inventors, eccentrics, and mavericks, and the creation of one nation, indivisible
- trueThe perfectionists : how precision engineers created the modern world
- trueThe river at the center of the world : a journey up the Yangtze and back in Chinese time
- trueA crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906
- trueAtlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories
- trueThe professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
- trueKrakatoa : the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883
- truePacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers
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