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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mappe...

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'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanl...

Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the ...

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Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who ...

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The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred ...

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In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known ...

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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Indus...

There is no more beautiful or alluring coast in the world than the West Coast of North America: a...

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The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examine...

The East Coast of North America is a wondrous, intriguing, yet threatened coastline. It zigs and ...

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An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remark...

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The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers ...

No photographer until David Freese has explored the various and wondrous landscapes along the Pac...

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Scott Conorroe?s project began as a study of Canadian and US railways, and then the coastlines of...

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kinderga...

Acclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year's volume of the fines...

I perfezionisti. Come la storia della precisione ha creato il mondo moderno

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

Per secoli l'uomo si è rifiutato di affrontare il mare grigio, roboante e tempestoso che si esten...

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Martin Parr, one of Britain's best-known contemporary photographers, and President of Magnum, the...

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Terrible things have been going on in the Balkans for centuries, and they are likely to go on for...