SIMON WINCHESTER

Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback for 2002. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in Londons Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the wo...

El profesor y el loco editado por Debate

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A...

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

(winchester).surgeon on crowthorne editado por Penguin

For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum--"Out of many, one"--has been featured on America's

A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To ComeThe vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both cultural and topographical. And, as Simon Winchester superbly demonstrates in this intimate port...