Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .ePUB reader, 370 KBOverview: In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea — from its southern tip to the North Korean border — in order to set the record straight about […]
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 251 MbOverview: The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa (the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster) was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event which has […]
4 History Books by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6.7 MbOverview: A bestselling author in both Britain and America, Simon Winchester was born and educated in England and now lives in Massachusetts. Having reported from almost everywhere during more than thirty years as a foreign correspondent, he now contributes to a variety of American and British […]
Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham & the Great Secrets of China by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.7 MbOverview: The seventeenth-century philosopher-statesman Francis Bacon famously declared that nothing had changed the world more profoundly than three great inventions: gunpowder, printing and the compass. What he didn’t know was that the Chinese had been successfully using […]
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 323 MbOverview: The revered New York Times best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement – precision – in a superb history that is both an […]