The River at the Centre of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.7MB Overview: 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 […]
The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester Requirements: .ePUB reader, 240KB Overview: On a summer’s day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. […]
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester (Author) (Narrator)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 340.2MB Overview: The international best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906. San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America’s relentless western […]
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4 MBOverview: 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 – Krakatoa. […]
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 274 MBOverview: In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as […]