Simon Winchester: 20 books

Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the...

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 legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island...

一本工具書的誕生，打開世界史的一頁，也吹響人類文明的號角 奧立佛‧薩克斯（Oliver Sacks）盛讚：令人著迷又感動，作者以出色文筆重建了不可思議的故事……從本書可以看出，即使患有嚴重、無助的精神病，透過工作與關愛也能找到救贖的可能。 歷史的幽暗處，封存逾百年的機密檔案，即將在世人面前揭開真相！ 因戰爭發瘋殺人的軍醫，靠自學成功的天才教授，結下不為人知的奇緣 合作完成人類文明史上最龐大的字典，塑造了現代文學史上最神祕、詭奇與悲慘的軼事 英國《泰晤士報》、美國《紐約時報》暢銷排行榜第一名 《不平靜的太平洋》作者溫契斯特長銷經典之作 原著改編電影即將上映，梅爾吉勃遜監製、主演，首度與西恩潘合作 胡川安（「故事：寫給所有人的歷史」網站主編）專文導讀，張鐵志（政治與文化評論家）、陳光興（《Inter-Asia...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and transform the experience of travel, and celebrates the gift of kindness around the world. Featuring...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Humorous tales of travel and misadventure. Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable...

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 remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history. The making of...