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Old 08-17-2009, 06:36 PM   #24
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Simon Winchester has gotten a LOT of positive reviews of his historical books.
  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
  • A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
  • The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
  • Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
And he's got a couple of travelogues as well.
  • The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
  • Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
  • Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
  • Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture
I looked all over my parent's house for "Crack in the Edge of the World" to no avail (which means its in my boxes at my house...ugh). I have never seen his travel books though, have you read any of them?
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