'A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book [Winchester] has crea...

'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encou...

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kinderga...

A New York Times Notable Book The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, g...

One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015

Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers...

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a...

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor a...

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of Wi...

Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the ear...

A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of ...

In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover...