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

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

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

One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015

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

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

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

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

Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing phot...

?In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisf...