Simon Winchester Audio & Video

In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head....

The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa (the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster) was followed by an immense tsunami....

Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery...

Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery...

Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: 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. from its beginnings.

The revered New York Times 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 that is both an homage and a warning for our future.

Simon Winchester is the author of over 20 books including bestsellers such as The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World.

Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers....

The Authors@Google program welcomed Simon Winchester to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "The Man Who Loved China".

The author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property...