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Simon Winchester
12+ albums
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Simon Winchester, OBE (born September 28, 1944), is a British author and journalist. Winchester studied geology at St Catherine's College, Oxford before working in Africa and on offshore oil rigs. He then spent a twenty-year career as a foreign correspondent for The Guardian, winning several awards. While at The Guardian, he was a witness to the events of Bloody Sunday. He has more recently written for such publications as Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic and book reviews for The New York Times. He lives on a small farm in Massachusetts, as well as in the Western Isles of Scotland. Before his success in book writing he was notable for being a journalist held captive by the Argentinian forces in the Falkland Islands. In the BBC television drama about the invasion, An Ungentlemanly Act, he was played by Paul Geoffrey. Winchester has traveled widely around the world. Winchester's most recent book is "The Man Who Loved China" about the British biochemist and Chinese scholar Joseph Needham. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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872The Professor and the Madman (Unabridged)
243The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life
194An Interview with Simon Winchester
135The Man Who Loved China (Unabridged) Part 1
126Escape on the Northbound Stage
127The Man Who Loved China (Unabridged) Part 2
118In all corners of the industrial world
109Atlantic - Part 02
910The Madness Of War
9albums
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The Fracture Zone
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The Professor And The Madman
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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The Professor and the Madman (Unabridged)
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Highlighted lectures and interviews - Audio
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The Meaning of Everything
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Atlantic
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Atlantic - The Biography of an Ocean
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The Man Who Loved CHINA
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Krakatoa
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The Man Who Loved China (Unabridged)