I found this to be endlessly fascinating, namely because I can't remember ever hearing his name during my undergraduate degree on Chinese culture. He did an immeasurable amount of work exposing Chinese innovation and culture to the Western world, research comparable to (and more complex than, if ...
This massive missive about the Atlantic Ocean, her history, commerce, environmental impact, geology, purpose and her future, is very enjoyable. I listened to Simon Winchester narrate his own book and what a departure from my usual read this was. Have you ever wondered about the beginning and the...
An interesting perspective on the history of the United State. The author's approach to breaking things down into sections, like the elements, was unique but it did seem at times like he had to stretch to get things to fit in those categories. In these type of books, I do expect to hear some fas...
There's some interesting information in this book including some fascinating background that quite probably combined a number of disparate factors to come together in Charles Dodgson's head to produce that magical book which Alberto Manguel called "a miracle of literature". Two factors of which w...
I have to say that I really do like this man’s books. I think the only reason I would read a book on Krakatoa is because Winchester wrote it. It is also very likely that the only reason I would read a book on an earthquake is because Winchester wrote it.Let me tell you what there is to love abo...
Rocks. They’re old.Thank you for reading my review.OK, I guess I’ll go into slightly more detail. In his phenomenal A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson devotes slightly less than a page to William Smith and the first geological map of Britain. This is likely a result of Bryson (or...
viaggio nella storiail racconto è interessanteogni tappa indica un passo indietro nel tempo, lungo la risalita del fiume che, simbolicamente rappresenta la macchina del tempo della Cinai villaggi e le città sono i segnalibri del racconto, la storia è l'unica protagonista, mentre chi la racconta n...
Did I ever really know that all these spread out islands from ocean to ocean were part of the British Empire? No, and apparently very few Brits knew this either.Simon Winchester researched which significant islands which make up the colonies of the United Kingdom were inhabited and set out to se...
the author of Krakatoa (2003) and The Professor and the Madman (1998) in 1988 took a walking tour of South Korea, and his book about it has been read 350 times.or at least, 350 Goodreaders have chosen to rate his book.so... if we ignore this deliberately facetious opening, we might say that Simon...
Saya sampai lupa dimana buku ini dibeli, sempat mengintip review dari teman GRI, saya baca reviewnya Pak Tanzil, dan memutuskan membaca buku ini. Saya salah. Tadinya saya mengira buku ini adalah novel, ternyata buku ini adalah semacam "pengantar" pada suatu kisah besar penciptaan kamus yang diang...