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Journalist Simon Winchester had already published a list of travel and historical titles before a footnote in a book about dictionary-making led him to his tale of a prolific contributor to the gargantuan Oxford English Dictionary. That book, The Professor and the Madman, became a surprise hit -- and made Winchester a leading practitioner of what The New York Times calls cocktail-party science.

Books by Simon Winchester

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary 0060175966 Book Cover

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

$4.19 - $18.29

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology 0060193611 Book Cover

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

Simon Winchester

$4.39 - $23.19

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 006093736X Book Cover

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Simon Winchester

$4.19 - $23.19

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 0060572000 Book Cover

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester

$3.99 - $16.99

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary 019517500X Book Cover

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

$4.19 - $14.39

The Perfectionists 0062652567 Book Cover

The Perfectionists

Simon Winchester

$7.59 - $27.14

The Men Who United the States 0062079611 Book Cover

The Men Who United the States

Simon Winchester

$4.89 - $26.74

The Man Who Loved China 0060884614 Book Cover

The Man Who Loved China

Simon Winchester

$4.49 - $15.33

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories 0061702587 Book Cover

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Simon Winchester

$5.39 - $24.57

Land 0062938347 Book Cover

Land

Simon Winchester

$7.59 - $22.89

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers 0007550758 Book Cover

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

Simon Winchester

$4.79 - $15.12

The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time 0805055088 Book Cover

The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time

Simon Winchester

$4.79 - $17.66

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic 0063142880 Book Cover

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Simon Winchester

$14.09 - $29.02

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire 0060598611 Book Cover

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

Simon Winchester

$3.99 - $16.37

Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles 0135172446 Book Cover

Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

Simon Winchester

$6.39 - $16.59

The Alice Behind Wonderland 0190614544 Book Cover

The Alice Behind Wonderland

Simon Winchester

$14.47 - $17.01

The Kindness of Strangers 1741795214 Book Cover

The Kindness of Strangers

Simon Winchester

$4.19 - $6.79

The Fracture Zone 0060954949 Book Cover

The Fracture Zone

Simon Winchester

$4.69 - $16.01

When the Sky Breaks: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and the Worst Weather in the World 0451476352 Book Cover

When the Sky Breaks: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and the Worst Weather in the World

Simon Winchester

$12.19

The Best American Travel Writing<tm> 2009 0618858660 Book Cover

The Best American Travel Writing<tm> 2009

Simon Winchester

$6.39 - $20.36

When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis 0670785369 Book Cover

When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis

Simon Winchester

$6.59 - $15.55

By Simon Winchester - Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection: A Visual Historical, Biological, and Iconographic Exploration of Alan Dudley's Famed Collection of 312 Animal Crania 1579129129 Book Cover

By Simon Winchester - Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection: A Visual Historical, Biological, and Iconographic Exploration of Alan Dudley's Famed Collection of 312 Animal Crania

Simon Winchester

$16.49 - $18.89

Their Noble Lordships 0394524187 Book Cover

Their Noble Lordships

Simon Winchester

$6.99 - $17.59

Hong Kong: Here Be Dragons 1556702493 Book Cover

Hong Kong: Here Be Dragons

Simon Winchester

$6.19 - $6.89

Pacific Nightmare 1559721367 Book Cover

Pacific Nightmare

Simon Winchester

$5.19 - $9.29

Pacific Rising 0671780042 Book Cover

Pacific Rising

Simon Winchester

$6.49 - $6.89

By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales Of Travel And Misadventure (Lonely Planet Journeys (Travel Literature)) 1741046068 Book Cover

By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales Of Travel And Misadventure (Lonely Planet Journeys (Travel Literature))

Simon Winchester

$5.29 - $12.06

Lonely Planet Simon Winchester's Calcutta (Travel Literature Series) 1740595874 Book Cover

Lonely Planet Simon Winchester's Calcutta (Travel Literature Series)

Simon Winchester

$4.79 - $5.49

In holy terror: Reporting the Ulster troubles 0571106285 Book Cover

In holy terror: Reporting the Ulster troubles

Simon Winchester

$37.79

West Coast: Bering to Baja 193808604X Book Cover

West Coast: Bering to Baja

Simon Winchester

$44.42

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