Simon Winchester
The Perfectionists
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The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Listen of my Audible career to date
- By Ed Chinaski on 2021-01-19
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The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-08
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Knowing
- By Paul on 2023-06-23
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-25
- Language: English
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
The author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future....
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-19
- Language: English
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The Map That Changed the World
- William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7
In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head....
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The Map That Changed the World
- William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2004-01-22
- Language: English
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Atlantic
- Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
From best-selling author Simon Winchester comes the immense and thrilling story of the world's most mysterious and breathtaking natural wonder: the Atlantic Ocean....
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Atlantic
- Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2010-11-02
- Language: English
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Pacific
- Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Best-selling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
- By Gerry on 2023-01-27
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Pacific
- Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-27
- Language: English
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The Professor and the Madman
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Proper Heavy
- By Mentally Guitarded on 2020-04-23
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The Professor and the Madman
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 1999-12-16
- Language: English
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A compelling story, well narrated
- By Armstrong on 2023-02-25
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2004-01-14
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Everything
- The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary....
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5 out of 5 stars
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OED you know what they stand for now you'll totally get the picture!
- By Ruth Rutledge on 2022-01-16
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The Meaning of Everything
- The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2004-01-14
- Language: English
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The Fracture Zone
- A Return to the Balkans
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans.....
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The Fracture Zone
- A Return to the Balkans
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2011-12-29
- Language: English
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The Man Who Loved China
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
No cloistered don, this tall, married Englishman was a freethinking intellectual, who practiced nudism and was devoted to a quirky brand of folk dancing....
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The Man Who Loved China
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2008-05-06
- Language: English
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The Professor and the Madman
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Abridged
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The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history....
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The Professor and the Madman
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 1999-12-16
- Language: English
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The End of the River
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate-change-inspired threats, it is rising sea levels we hear most about. But if the oceans are, as Herman Melville put it, “the tide-beating heart of the Earth”, rivers are its circulatory system....
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The End of the River
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-09
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States
- America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Simon Winchester delivers a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A.....
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The Men Who United the States
- America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-15
- Language: English
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Outposts
- Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets"....
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5 out of 5 stars
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SW is always a treat!!! Can listen to him forever
- By Alison Buchanan on 2019-03-25
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Outposts
- Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2005-04-21
- Language: English
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes....
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2005-10-05
- Language: English
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Alice Behind Wonderland
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Alice Behind Wonderland
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2011-05-24
- Language: English
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
The international best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion....
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2005-10-12
- Language: English
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