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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-19 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK

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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave
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Authors: Andro Linklater
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

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Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or ch
The Alice Behind Wonderland
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Pages: 123
Authors: Simon Winchester
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 Lidde
The Perfectionists
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“Another gem from one of the world’s justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.” — Booklist (starr
Outposts
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Simon Winchester
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-27 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the Britis