Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 395 MbOverview: From best-selling author Simon Winchester comes the immense and thrilling story of the world’s most mysterious and breathtaking natural wonder: the Atlantic Ocean.Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been […]
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 158 MbOverview: A New York Times Notable Book • Now a Major Motion Picture The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two […]
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 624 KBOverview: The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to […]
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 392 MBOverview: The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property – our proprietary relationship with the land – through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for […]
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .ePUB Reader, 43 MBOverview: The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property-our proprietary relationship with the land-through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future.Land-whether meadow or […]