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Simon Winchester

Author and journalist Simon Winchester was born in England but favours the United States.

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British journalist and popular historian

Born 28 September 1944

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  • Cover of: The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
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  • Cover of: The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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  • Cover of: Korea: a walk through the land of miracles
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    First published in 1988 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

    First published in 1985 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
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  • Cover of: The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans
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    Cover of edition fracturezone00simo First published in 1999 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: The Surgeon of Crowthorne

    First published in 1998 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Krakatoa: the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883
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  • Cover of: Land: The Ownership of Everywhere

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  • Cover of: A crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906
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  • Cover of: The sun never sets: travels to the remaining outposts of the British Empire
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    First published in 1985 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Their Noble Lordships: Class and Power in Modern Britain
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    First published in 1978 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America

    First published in 2011 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Pacific nightmare: how Japan starts World War III, a future history
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    First published in 1992 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The meaning of everything: the story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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  • Cover of: The man who loved China: the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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  • Cover of: The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
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  • Cover of: Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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    First published in 2015 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic

    First published in 2006 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Tsunami: A Document Of Devastation

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British journalist and popular historian

Born 28 September 1944

Subjects

History, Description and travel, Travel, Biography, Geography, Nonfiction, Ocean and civilization, Earthquakes, Folklore, New York Times reviewed, Great britain, biography, Large type books, Oxford English dictionary, Pictorial works, Biography & Autobiography, English language, Geologists, Lexicographers, Lexicography, Pacific ocean, description and travel, Scientists, biography, Stratigraphic Geology, Voyages and travels, Atlantic ocean, Civilization

Places

Great Britain, United States, Atlantic Ocean, Indonesia, Krakatoa (Indonesia), Northern Ireland, Japan, Korea (South), Pacific Ocean, Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland), Angleterre, Argentina, Balkan Peninsula, Calcutta (India), California, China, Colonies, Coventry, East Asia, Grande-Bretagne, Great Briatin, Great Plains, Hong Kong (China), Indian Ocean, Kosovo (Serbia)

People

Simon Winchester, William Smith (1769-1839), James Augustus Henry Murray Sir (1837-1915), William Chester Minor, Frederick James Furnivall (1825-1910), Herbert Coleridge (1830-1861), James A. H. Murray (1837-1915), Alan Dudley (1957-), Carol J. Blinn, James Augustus Henry Murray Sir, 1837-1915, Joseph Needham (1900-1995), William Chester Minor (1834-1920)

Time

19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1969-1994, 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession), 1969-, 20th century, Civil War, 1998-1999

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Alternative names

  • Simon. Winchester
  • SIMON WINCHESTER
  • Simon Winchester (author)
  • Simon Winchester OBE
  • Simon Winchester (Narrator) Simon Winchester (Author)

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
November 28, 2019 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
August 7, 2012 Edited by Neville Holmes merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import