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Winchester, Simon Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
HarperCollins April 1, 2003 0-06-621285-5 / 9780066212852 1st Edition Hardcover Fine/Fine
A tight clean first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wrapper, n ot price clipped/ex library or a book of the month edition. It may seem a stretch to connect a volcanic eruption with civil and religious unrest in Indonesia today, but Simon Winchester makes a compelling case. Krakatoa tells the frightening tale of the biggest volcanic eruption in history using a blend of gentle geology and narrative history. Krakatoa erupted at a time when technologies like the telegraph were becoming commonplace and Asian trade routes were being expanded by northern European companies. This bustling colonial backdrop provides an effective canvas for the suspense leading up to August 27th, 1883, when the nearby island of Krakatoa would violently vaporize. Winchester describes the eruption through the eyes of its survivors, and readers will be as horrified and mesmerized as eyewitnesses were as the death toll reached nearly 40,000 (almost all of whom died from tsunamis generated by the unimaginably strong shock waves of the eruption). Ships were thrown miles inshore, endless rains of hot ash engulfed those towns not drowned by 100 foot waves, and vast rafts of pumice clogged the hot sea. The explosion was heard thousands of miles away, and the eruption's shock wave traveled around the world seven times. But the book's biggest surprise is not the riveting catalog of the volcano's effects; rather, it is Winchester's contention that the Dutch abandonment of their Indonesian colonies after the disaster left local survivors to seek comfort in radical Islam, setting the stage for a volatile future for the region.
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Winchester, Simon The Map That Changed the World
Avon Books 2002 0-06-050181-2 / 9780060501815 Paperback Very Good+
Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, prese nts the fascinating story of William Smith, a 19th-century engineer who bec ame the father of modern geology by discovering the various fossil layers u nder the earth and creating the world's first map of the various strata. Be fore he could receive any such acclaim, however, he was forced to overcome a landslide of adversity. Once again, Winchester brings to life an obscure historical figure almost c ompletely forgotten over the years. Smith worked as an engineer at a time w hen canal growth was booming in England -- experienced men were needed to d etermine the most practical route each canal should take. As he surveyed, h e noticed that the rocks were arranged in layers, each layer containing a u nique set of fossils. He quickly realized what this meant: The Earth must b e far older than the 4,004 years commonly thought to be true, as taught by the Bible. For the next 20 years, Smith traveled throughout England, accumulating rock s and fossils -- creating one of the largest collections ever -- while plan ning the creation of a huge hand-painted map that would show the arrangemen t of the various layers. In 1815, his map was produced, at great personal e xpense. Four years later, he was thrown into debtor's prison, and swindled out of his meager profits. He was deemed too "unpolished and ill-educated" to gain entry into the Geological Society, a snub that devastated him. Worst of all, his carefully and painstakingly created map was then plagiarized by a "gentleman," George Bellas Greenough -- a sitting member of both the House of Commons and the Geolo
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Winchester, Simon The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
Harper Perennial August 1999 0-06-099486-X / 9780060994860 Paperback Very Good+
When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary put out a call during the late 19th century pleading for "men of letters" to provide help with their mammoth undertaking, hundreds of responses came forth. Some helpers, like Dr. W.C. Minor, provided literally thousands of entries to the editors. But Minor, an American expatriate in England and a Civil War veteran, was actu ally a certified lunatic who turned in his dictionary entries from the Broa dmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Simon Winchester has produced a mesmerizing coda to the deeply troubled Minor's life, a life that in one sense began wi th the senseless murder of an innocent British brewery worker that the delu ded Minor believed was an assassin sent by one of his numerous "enemies."
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Winchester, Simon The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Penguin Books Ltd June 3, 1999 0-14-027128-7 / 9780140271287 Paperback Very Good
W.C. Minor was one of the keenest volunteers involved in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. What the OED's editor, James Murray, didn't real ise was that he was also a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lu natic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder.
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Winchester, Simon The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Viking 1998 0-670-87862-6 / 9780670878628 1st Edition Hardcover NF/NF
A highly collectible first edition/printing, a tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions or markings, not price clipped an ex-library or a book of the month club edition; One of the keenest volunteers in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a W C Minor. His refusal to go to Oxford to receive his congratulations led to the editor going to meet him in Berkshire, where he found that Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder.
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