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Atlantic. The Biography of an Ocean
Paperback. Pp: 304. The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. ISBN: 9780007341399. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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A crack in the edge of the world. America and the great California earthquake of 1906
Harper Collins, 2005. Linnen band. Pp: 462. Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless weste. ISBN: 9780060571993. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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The Fracture Zone. A Return to the Balkans
Viking, 1999. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 267. In 1976, Simon Winchester visited Kosovo and took a picnic in the water-meadows of the Lepenec river. Today the same field is a grotesque site. This text weaves together history, travel and political perspectives with the moving testaments of the ordinary and extraordinary people of Kosovo. ISBN: 9780670889556. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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The Fracture Zone
HarperCollins, 1999. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 272. Terrible things have been going on in the Balkans for centuries, and they are likely to go on for centuries more to come. It is an area of great contrasts - geographically beautiful, yet the underlying crust of the region is cracked along great tectonic fault lines. These natural fault lines pale in comparison to the borders made by man, which have added further layers of complexity to a region where war is frequent, horrors are unspeakable, and history is unfathomable. It is not an area of the world that many would care to visit - unless they had been there before.Simon Winchester, a seasoned reporter, visited the region twenty years ago. During the recent Kosovo crisis, he remembered that first trip and the people he met, and he decided that parallel journeys might well be a device for explaining with sympathy the true nature of this fractured region. Two great capitals, Vienna and Istanbul, whose ceaseless imperial rivalries in the past played so profound a role in shaping the savage divisions of the region today, would anchor his second journey to the region.With the war under way, he enlisted the aid of a linguist friend and set off from Vienna on a long, scimitar-shaped adventure through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, and Turkey, arriving at the Golden Horn just as the war was officially declared over. With luck, and through valuable personal contacts, Winchester managed to be in Macedonia on the day the NATO forces moved in to assume control of Kosovo - and because the commanding general was an old friend, he rode in with the liberating columns of troops and armor. This is not a book about the war, but rather an intimate portrait of the region painted while the war was going on. It is also an attempt to understand what has led this region to violence - now, in the past, and inevitably again in the future. Written with a keen sense of time and place, The Fracture Zone is at once current and timeless. It goes behind the headlines and gives us a true picture of a region that has always been on the brink. Simon Winchester's remarkable journey puts all the elements together - the faults, the fractures, and the chaos - and makes sense out of a seemingly senseless place. ISBN: 9780060195748. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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De kaart die de wereld veranderde
Atlas, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 350. William Smith werkte aan het begin van de achttiende eeuw als ingenieur in een Engelse mijn. Toen hij op een geode dag in deze mijn afdaalde, begonnen hem de verschillende aardlagen op te vallen. Smith raakte gefascineerd door dit fenomeen en kwam erachter dat deze lagen zich overal in dezelfde volgorde afwisselden. Aan de hand van fossielen kon hij de aardlagen vervolgens dateren. De daaropvolgende twintig jaar reisde Smith door Engeland en Wales, werkend aan wat zijn levenswerk zou worden: een geologische kaart van de aardlagen in Engeland en Wales. Toen hij dit monumentale werk in 1815 voltooide, hoopte hij op erkenning door de elitaire Geological Society. Maar klassenverschillen en snobisme van dit genootschap stonden dit in de weg. Een aantal leden probeerde zelfs met de eer te gaan strijken, en de berooide William Smith belandde in de gevangenis wegens schulden. In De kaart die de wereld veranderde vertelt Simon Winchester het even tragische als inspirerende verhaal van een eenzame wetenschapper die, ondanks de tegenwerking van zijn tijdgenoten, een van de belangrijkste grondleggers was van de moderne geologie. Simon Winchester (1944) studeerde geologie in Oxford. Hij schrijft onder meer voor The New York Times, National Geographic en Cond ast Traveler. Van hem verschenen eerder De rivier in het midden van de wereld, De gekwelde woordenaar en Krakatau. De dag dat de wereld ontplofte. ISBN: 9789045009056. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Krakatoa. The Day the World Exploded
2004. Paperback. Pp: 64. The story behind one of the greatest volcanic eruptions of modern times. It was an international besteller in hardback, receiving huge critical acclaim. Winchester's previous. ISBN: 9780141005171. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Krakatoa. The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Penguin, 2003. Paperback. Pp: 448. ISBN: 9780141015620. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World.
Harper Collins. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 422. Land"whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city"is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing"and have done"with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world`s land"and why does it matter?. ISBN: 9780062938336. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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The meaning of everything
2003. Paperback. Pp: 260. 'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and extraordinary people who made it their mission to catalogue the English language in its entirety. In The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester celebrates this remarkable feat, and the fascinating characters who played such a vital part in its execution, from the colourful Frederick Furnivall, cheerful promoter of an all-female sculling crew, to James Murray, self-educated son of a draper, who spent half a century guiding the project towards fruition. Along the way we learn which dictionary editor became the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, and why Tolkien found it so hard to define 'walrus'. Written by the bestselling author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne and The Map That Changed the World, The Meaning of Everything is an enthralling account of the creation of the world's greatest dictionary. ISBN: 9780192805768. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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The Meaning of Everything. The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Groothandel / BESTEL, 2003. Pp: 256. From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language-"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"-and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful"schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor HerbertColeridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making-how unexpectedlytricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated-and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugatediron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium-the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it-and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W. C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, andultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project-a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, theworld's unrivalled uber-dictionary. ISBN: 9780198607021. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
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Men Who United the States. The Amazing Stories of the Explorers, Inventors and Mavericks Who Made America
Harper Collins UK, 2014. Paperback. Pp: 463. From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. ISBN: 9780007532407. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Pacific. The Ocean of the Future
HarperCollins Publishers. Paperback. Pp: 512. Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world`s largest body of water, and " in matters economic, political and military " the ocean of the future. ISBN: 9780007550777. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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De rivier in het midden van de wereld. Een reis naar de bronnen van de Yangzi en terug in de tijd
Eldorado Reizen, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 398. ISBN: 9789047100232. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
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Surgeon of Crowthorne
1999. Paperback. Pp: 207. Simon Winchester's account, now in paperback, of the role played in the creation of the O.E.D. by a deranged American Civil War hero who was also a millionaire and a murderer. A no. 1 bestseller in Viking hardcover, it promises to do extremely well in this. ISBN: 9780140271287. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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The Kindness of Strangers: tales of fate and fortune on the road, preface by Dalai Lama.
Australia, Lonely Planet, (2008). VG PB. Inspiring collection of 20 tales that explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and tranform the. experience of travel and celebrates the gift of kindness around the world.
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Catalogue: Fiction
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