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Télécharger le livre : Bomb, Book and Compass
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Bomb, Book and Compass
Simon Winchester
Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest love affairs of his life...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-09-25

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14,99 €
Télécharger le livre : A Crack in the Edge of the World
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
Simon Winchester
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-04-06

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8,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Krakatoa
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Krakatoa
Simon Winchester
'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension' Sunday TelegraphSimon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2004-06-03

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9,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Outposts
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Outposts
Simon Winchester
The reissue of a Simon Winchester classicIn 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean to visit the far-flung islands that are all that...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-06-05

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9,49 €
Télécharger le livre : The Surgeon of Crowthorne
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Simon Winchester
An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was one of the most...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2002-07-25

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8,49 €
Télécharger le livre : The Map That Changed the World
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The Map That Changed the World
Simon Winchester
THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OFTHE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2002-07-04

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9,49 €
Télécharger le livre : The River at the Centre of the World
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The River at the Centre of the World
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangste River to its source. This is the story of the river, it's cities and their people, built around the author's own journey to discover something of the essence of China and her people, the Yangtse being...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1998-02-26

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9,49 €