'Very entertaining'SUNDAY TIMES'A thoroughly enjoyable book, brimming over with historical nugget...

The reissue of a Simon Winchester classicIn 1985 Simon Winchesterstruck by a sudden need to dis...

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

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a l...

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...

'Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetim...

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...

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

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