A incrível história dos setenta anos de elaboração do Oxford English Dictionary e de como seu principal editor, o filólogo autodidata James Murray, cruzou com a figura...
Atlântico: Grandes Batalhas Navais, Descobrimentos Heroicos, Tempestades Colossais E Um Vasto Oceano Com Um Milhão De Histórias
Simon Winchester faz a biografia monumental do oceano que cobre um quinto da superfície da Terra e cuja história percorre 190 milhões de anos.Neste livro de aventuras e escopo...
Land: How The Hunger For Ownership Shaped The Modern World
“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate...
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of...
The Alice Behind Wonderland
On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of...
Atlantic
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting...
The Men Who United the States
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular...
Pacific
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its...
The Meaning of Everything
From the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and KrakatoaWriting with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning...
Krakatoa
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was...
