Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester is represented in this catalog by 36 books, including A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906, Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, and Exactly / The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World.
Publication Order
Standalone Books
In Holy Terror
1975
American Heartbeat
1976
Their Noble Lordships: Class and Power in Modern Britain
1981
Prison Diary, Argentina
1984
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
1985
The Sun Never Sets: travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire
1985
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
1988
The Rise and Fall of Travel
1989
Pacific Nightmare : How Japan Starts World War III
1991
Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture
1991
Hong Kong: Here Be Dragons
1992
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
1996
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
1998
The Professor and the Madman
1998
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
1999
The Map That Changed the World
2001
The Meaning Of Everything
2003
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
2003
Simon Winchester's Calcutta
2004
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
2005
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
2008
Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
2008
The Best American Travel Writing 2009
2009
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
2009
The Alice Behind Wonderland
2011
Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection
2012
The Man With The Electrified Brain: Story of a Man with an Electrified Brain
2013
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
2013
When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
2015
Pacific
2015
When the Sky Breaks: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and the Worst Weather in the World
2017
Exactly / The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
2018
The End of the River
2020
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
2021
Knowing What We Know
2023
The Breath of the Gods
2025