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Winchester, Simon Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded August 27, 1883
HarperCollins 2003 0066212855 / 9780066212852 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.95. No writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Very-nicely illustrated with photos and drawings. 416 pages. Synopsis: In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global repercussions in both historical and scientific contexts. The book includes maps and other illustrations. Published in Great Britain by Viking, 2003. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Time: Krakatoa is volcanic. Biography: Journalist Simon Winchester had already published a list of travel and historical titles before a footnote in a book about dictionary-making led him to his tale of a prolific contributor to the gargantuan Oxford English Dictionary. That book, The Professor and the Madman, became a surprise hit -- and made Winchester a leading practitioner of what The New York Times calls “cocktail-party science.”
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Winchester, Simon The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
HarperCollins 2008 0060884592 / 9780060884598 First Edition Hardcover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Illustrated endpapers. Tight spine, clean pages. 316 pages. Illustrated throughout. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Joseph Needham (1900–1995) is the man who made China China, forming the West's understanding of a sophisticated culture with his masterpiece, Science and Civilization in China, says bestselling author Winchester. In a life devoted to recording the Middle Kingdom's intellectual wealth, Needham, an eccentric, brilliant Cambridge don, made a remarkable journey from son of a London doctor through scientist-adventurer to red scare target. In Winchester's (The Professor and the Madman) estimable hands, Needham's story comes to life straightaway. From the biochemist's arrival in WWII Chongqing (the smells, of incense smoke, car exhaust, hot cooking oil, a particularly acrid kind of pepper, human waste, oleander, and jasmine) to his steely discipline when crafting his research into prose (to an old friend: I am frightfully busy. You come without an appointment, so I am afraid I cannot see you), Winchester plunges the reader into the action with hardly a break. As the author notes in an outstanding epilogue—a swirling 12-page trip through the kaleidoscope of contemporary China—he is at pains to place Needham front and center in our understanding of the nation that now plays such a huge role in American life.
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