Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester was born and educated in England, has lived in Africa, India and Asia, and now lives in New York.
 

Having reported from almost everywhere during an award-winning twenty-year career as a Guardian foreign correspondent, he is currently the Asia-Pacific editor for Condé Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as to the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC.

Simon Winchester's books include Outposts: Travels to the Remains of the British Empire; Korea: A Walk through the Land of Miracles; The Pacific; Pacific Nightmare, a fictional account of the aftermath of the Hong Kong hand-over; Prison Diary, Argentina, the story of three months spent in a Patagonian jail on spying charges during the Falklands war; The River at the Centre of the World - A Journey Up the Yangtze, Back in Chinese Time, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, The Fracture Zone and The Map That Changed the World.

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Atlantic : A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Simon Winchester The Atlantic Ocean from its first existence, our discovery of it as a immense sea between Europe and the Americas through to its likely demise. It stays absorbing and hugely informative from page one with Simon Winchester tackling geology, geography,... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011 Lovereading Price: £7.49 - Saving £2.50 (25%)

Atlantic : A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Simon Winchester Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 May 2011. The Atlantic Ocean from its first existence, our discovery of it as a immense sea between Europe and the Americas through to its likely demise. It stays absorbing and... Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010 Lovereading Price: £18.75 - Saving £6.25 (25%)

A Crack In The Edge Of The World Simon Winchester The massive earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco is the basis from which Simon Winchester reveals the elemental story of the earth beneath our feet and why the world does from time to time crack open with such devastating results.... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2005 Lovereading Price: £12.74 - Saving £4.25 (25%)

The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption Simon Winchester This was first published in 2001 but I’ve included it here as it is one of the very best books that followed the Longitude method of science writing, homing in on one small step in history, showing how one man’s... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2002 Lovereading Price: £7.49 - Saving £2.50 (25%)