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...
A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To ComeThe vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both cultural and topographical. And, as Simon Winc...
It was a prophetic remark, for it was to Gibraltar, and to the old circular harbour at Rosia at the southern tip of the peninsula, that the Admiral’s body was carried after Trafalgar. He had been pickled in cognac, because there was not enough rum on the Victory, and the barrel blew up in the Oct...
Camping had not been in our plan; but our car had broken down, and now lay seemingly beyond repair. The diagnosis was plain: the two mild-steel bolts that were supposed to hold the radiator secure had both sheared simultaneously, buffeted by scores of miles of vicious bumping along what is laugha...
The Fracture Zone † Where by chance I ran into Jørgen Grunnet, a Dane who was now a member of an international monitoring group that had just been forced out of Kosovo, but with whom, when he worked for the newspaper Politiken, I had shared an office in Washington in 1972. We hadn’t seen each oth...
Atlantic 42 The Danish fort that still stands in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, is both named and modeled after Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen, where the Danish royal family lives to this day, in storied splendor; and the old fort at Elmina, built by the Portuguese, had lots of decorative cre...
At about Noon the Weather began to freshen, and at Night we spread our Sail, directing our course by guess South-East. The Wind growing fresh at Night, we clear’d the point of Corea, and were no longer apprehensive of being pursu’d… Hendrick Hamel, 1668 I stayed around the frontier zone for a whi...