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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- By Kindle Customer on 08-05-2024
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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: 25-04-2023
- Language: English
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Exactly
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 277
Best-selling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A revelation and a delight
- By The Quiet Reader on 11-05-2018
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Exactly
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2018
- Language: English
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water and the ocean of the future....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining and Informative
- By Shane Geard on 07-10-2019
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2015
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Everything
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary was a remarkable achievement, and a story of determination, hard work and inspired research....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential read for lovers of the English language
- By Pippin on 06-12-2019
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The Meaning of Everything
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2011
- Language: English
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Atlantic
- Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- By Amazon Customer on 31-10-2020
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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: 02-11-2010
- Language: English
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims on the thousands of acres of unclaimed pastures and meadows....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Beyond disappointing
- By Monica on 06-07-2021
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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: 19-01-2021
- Language: English
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
- The Murder, Mystery and Madness of the Oxford English Dictionary
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
The compiling of the OED was a monumental task. It took 50 years, even with the help of numerous contributors. Among the most prolific was William Chester Minor....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The importance of English
- By EileenH on 11-02-2023
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
- The Murder, Mystery and Madness of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 24-11-2017
- Language: English
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The Fracture Zone
- A Return to the Balkans
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4 out of 5 stars 11
Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans.....
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2 out of 5 stars
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The narrator’s dreadful posh interpretation of Simon Winchester.
- By Vivienne on 29-01-2024
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The Fracture Zone
- A Return to the Balkans
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 29-12-2011
- Language: English
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The End of the River
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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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: 09-09-2021
- Language: English
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