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	A Crack in the Edge of the World, America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 • Simon Winchester • HISTORY • Geologist, master storyteller, traveler and journalist, Simon Winchester succeeds again in this fast-paced, utterly fascinating account of the great 1906 earthquake that devastated San Francisco. (CAL193, $15.95)
	The Fracture Zone, My Return to the Balkans • Simon Winchester • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Winchester, who first encountered the Balkans on a road trip in the 1970s, returns to the region on a heart-wrenching, dramatic tour of the country in the midst of the 1999 Kosovo crisis. In his familiar and engaging style, he combines reflection, travel and interview in this portrait of a troubled place. (BLK64, $13.00)
	Korea, A Walk Through the Land of Miracles • Simon Winchester • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Winchester, in his familiar and engaging style, blends travel, history and reporting in this insightful account of a walk across Korea in 1988. With a map and black-and-white photographs. (KOR16, $13.95)
	Krakatoa, The Day the World Exploded: August 27,1883 • Simon Winchester • NATURAL HISTORY • A masterful portrait of the island, centered around the dramatic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. A lucid explanation of the volcanology, human drama and ecology of Krakatoa. (INS93, $13.95)
	The Map That Changed the World, William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology • Simon Winchester • HISTORY • (GBR607, $13.95)
	The Meaning of Everything, The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary • Simon Winchester • HISTORY • (GBR608, $15.95)
	Outposts, Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire • Simon Winchester • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Winchester's globe-trotting account of scattered, mostly oceanic, outposts of the British Empire. He shows his usual flair for anecdote in describing Hong Kong, Diego Garcia, Tristan de Cunha, St. Helena, Ascension, Pitcairn, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands. (GBR569, $13.95)
	The Professor and the Madman • Simon Winchester • HISTORY • The bizarre true story behind the birth of the Oxford English Dictionary and two men -- one a scholarly editor, the other a mentally ill, convicted murderer -- who contributed to its creation. (GBR178, $13.95)
	The Professor and the Madman (Audio) • Simon Winchester • HISTORY • An audio version of the bizarre true story behind the birth of the Oxford English Dictionary and two men -- one a scholarly editor, the other a mentally ill, convicted murderer -- who contributed to its creation. (GBR606, $14.95)
	The River at the Center of the World • Simon Winchester • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE • Winchester writes about the character of Yangtze, and the people and places along its banks, with an easy grace in this remarkable portrait of the great river that is at the symbolic and literal heart of China. (CHN31, $16.00)
	Simon Winchester's Calcutta • Simon Winchester • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Travel essays and a history of the city by Simon Winchester married with excerpts by literary giants, both foreign and Indian. Winchester was based in Calcutta in the 1970s. (IDA254, $14.99)
	Stones of Empire, The Buildings of the Raj • Jan Morris • Simon Winchester • HISTORY • A new edition of Jan Morris' appreciative social history of Anglo-Indian architecture with a new forward by Simon Winchester. With a fine eye, Morris considers the whole range of Anglo-Indian buildings in this probing account. (IDA261, $19.95)
	Worlds to Explore, Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic Magazine • Mark D. Jenkins • Simon Winchester • ANTHOLOGY • Jenkins tapped 50 National Geographic articles dating from the turn of the century to the 1950s for this marvelous compilation of adventures by Roy Chapman Andrews, Richard Byrd, Edmund Hillary and others today less known. (TVL103, $15.95)
	Yangtze Remembered, The River Beneath the Lake • Linda Butler • Simon Winchester • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Photographer Linda Butler's photographic essay about the Yangtze valley before and after the 2003 flooding of the Three Gorges Dam. (CHN218, $70.00)

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